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A few months ago\u00a0we were talking about\u00a0Betting on zero<\/em><\/a>a documentary that you can watch on Netflix in which the company's sales system is revealed.\u00a0Herbalife, famous for the sale of nutritional supplements and meal replacements for weight loss<\/strong>. It is, as you know, a system of\u00a0 But,\u00a0what's really inside an Herbalife shake?<\/strong>\u00a0Can it be effective in achieving weight loss? We analyze the contents of its most famous shake, Formula 1, to see what's inside the famous white and green bottle.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Herbalife Formula 1 shake<\/strong>\u00a0is the brand's flagship product, the most representative of all those on sale. It includes,\u00a0according to its website<\/a>The product line includes products for weight control, together with other products of the brand such as protein sachets, bars or vitamin complexes.<\/p>\n The product is presented in a 550-gram jar which, according to the manufacturer's instructions to consume\u00a0a portion of 26 grams<\/strong>\u00a0(two tablespoons, more or less) together with 250 milliliters of semi-skimmed milk, gives us about 21 intakes.<\/p>\n The price is usually\u00a0around 40 euros<\/strong>The cost of the shake is approximately two euros or a little less.<\/p>\n The Formula 1 shake is sold, as it says on its own label, as a\u00a0meal replacement for weight loss<\/strong>. In the same boat we can see how it is recommended\u00a0replacing two of the daily meals with weight loss shakes<\/strong>The diet is also accompanied by a low-calorie diet.<\/p>\n It is also recommended in case of\u00a0want to keep the weight off<\/strong>\u00a0after you have lost it: in this case, they recommend replacing one of your daily meals with a Formula 1 shake.<\/p>\n What it promises on its label<\/strong>\u00a0the Formula 1 shake is an \"excellent balance of high quality soy and milk proteins (it contains soy and milk protein isolate), essential nutrients (these are vitamins and minerals, basically), botanical ingredients and herbs (it contains 0.02% of parsley powder, for example)\".<\/p>\n In addition, a little further down it tells us that it is \"rich in protein\", that it \"provides vitamins and minerals (...) that contribute to normal energy metabolism\" and that it also contributes \"to the protection of cells against oxidative stress\". And it alludes to the\u00a0221 kilocalories from each shake<\/strong>\u00a0(including those that milk can provide).<\/p>\n To know what exactly is in a Herbalife Formula 1 shake we have to look at, as you can imagine, both\u00a0nutritional information<\/strong>\u00a0as the\u00a0list of ingredients<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Let's start with the list of ingredients, which is usually much more revealing: first we find the\u00a0soy protein isolate<\/strong>\u00a0(34% of the total of the shake), which would be the main ingredient, while in second place, and therefore in a higher proportion to all the other ingredients that follow (which are not few, by the way: more than 40), there is\u00a0fructose<\/strong>a sugar.<\/p>\n The second ingredient of a shake recommended for weight loss is\u00a0one sugar<\/a>. Not only that, but also\u00a0further down in the list of ingredients we can find other sugars<\/strong>\u00a0such as dextrose or honey powder. This alone should set off our alarm bells.<\/p>\n If we go to the nutritional information provided on the package itself, we find the following: 35 grams of protein per 100 grams of product. If to prepare a shake we need 26 grams, as the manufacturer tells us, this means that in each shake there are\u00a09.1 grams of protein provided by Herbalife<\/strong>\u00a0and 7.9 grams provided by the milk with which we make the shake. It is not a marvel of protein intake, rather it is quite discreet, but they call it \"rich in protein\". Just to give you an idea:\u00a030 grams of peanuts<\/a>\u00a0make a similar protein contribution.<\/p>\n In terms of calories, the Formula 1 shake itself is also low in calories: according to its data,\u00a097 kilocalories per shake, rising to 221 kilocalories when semi-skimmed milk is added.<\/strong>. The milk, not the shake, is providing the most energy.<\/p>\n Here I refer you to the text of the dietician-nutritionist\u00a0Pablo Zumaquero<\/a>\u00a0on the blog of\u00a0My diet is limping<\/a>:\u00a0they do serve to lose weight because they are providing much less energy than what we would provide with a meal.<\/strong>. 221 kilocalories per meal is an anecdotal contribution: they are\u00a0a little more than 100 grams of tuna in oil<\/a>which, in addition, provides a better protein intake than the shake.<\/p>\n Would you lose weight if instead of eating what you are having for dinner right now you only ate a can of tuna? What if you also had another can of tuna for breakfast and the other meal you have each day is low in calories? Of course you would\u00a0you will lose weight, but because you are practically fasting.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Be careful, because this is not exclusive to Herbalife:\u00a0is the same mechanics that all companies selling detox shakes follow.<\/strong>Do you lose weight if you drink these shakes for five days? Evidently yes, but not because you are learning to eat, but because you are making such a low energetic contribution to your body (and surely you are coming from a previous caloric excess), that it is practically impossible not to lose weight this way.<\/p>\n Here we refer to\u00a0any diet based on substitute products.<\/strong>\u00a0Shakes, bars, prepared sachets, pills... and not just Herbalife, because they all work the same.<\/p>\n The premise used in this type of diets is always that of\u00a0replace real food with shakes.<\/strong>\u00a0Sachets or bars of a specific brand, thus creating a relationship of dependence with these products.\u00a0There is no nutritional reeducation<\/a>The number of meals to be substituted is simply indicated.<\/p>\n Weight loss occurs when\u00a0based only on a lower calorie intake at the end of the day<\/strong>. Other important factors such as the eating habits of each person are not analyzed. For example if you have an emotional relationship with food. What are the causes that have led that person to suffer a problem of overweight or obesity. A multidisciplinary approach to nutrition is not carried out, but we base ourselves only in the\u00a0calorie count<\/a>.<\/p>\n Even if in the short term there is a weight loss,\u00a0what happens after a while?<\/strong>\u00a0Since a diet based on substitute products does not create adherence, as we have indicated above, or we cannot maintain it in the long term for economic reasons (it is expensive) and nutritional re-education has not been carried out in the process, the normal thing to do is to go back to the\u00a0poor nutritional habits<\/a>\u00a0we had before starting this diet, recovering the lost weight.<\/p>\n These diets, in addition,\u00a0can pose a risk to our health<\/strong>: from a\u00a0energy intake far below what we need to meet our energy needs.<\/a>s, especially if we are sportsmen and women, to possible liver problems (as previously documented<\/a>(although an AESAN report related the liver damage to bad habits of consumption of these products and not to a specific product), possible dependency relationships with food, etc.<\/p>\n If you are looking to lose weight, our advice will always be that you turn to a professional in the sector. A dietitian-nutritionist who can treat you in a personalized way and instill in you changes of habits towards more positive ones. In addition, maintaining daily physical activity and practicing sports regularly can also help you to maintain an adequate weight.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few months ago we talked about Betting on zero, a documentary that you can watch on Netflix in which the sales system of the company Herbalife, famous for the sale of nutritional supplements and meal replacements for weight loss, is revealed. It is, as you know, a pyramid system of direct sales and multilevel in [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1893],"tags":[1595,1277,1596],"class_list":["post-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutricion","tag-batidos-de-proteinas","tag-noticias-kasikao","tag-proteinas-de-calidad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasikao.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}pyramidal<\/del>The most important aspect of direct and multilevel sales is the recruitment of new salespeople who also consume their products.<\/p>\nWhat is the Formula 1 milkshake?<\/h2>\n
What does the Herbalife Formula 1 Shake promise?<\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat's in an Herbalife Formula 1 Shake? Ingredients and nutritional information<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nSoy protein isolate and added sugar are the two main ingredients in Herbalife's Formula 1 shake.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Is the Formula 1 shake good for weight loss?<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe downsides of the Herbalife Formula 1 shake<\/h2>\n
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The dangers of substitute-based diets<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\nDiets based on substitutes do not create adherence and are not effective in the long term.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n