Are Our Kids the Sickest Generation?

This issue highlights two recent articles from the media on children’s health. Are Our Kids the Sickest Generation? looks at some disturbing health statistics and our second article, Body Burden is a new phrase you’ll be hearing about that measures the toxins and unwanted chemicals in the body. To help you combat these growing threats to your children we share four ways you can reduce the unwanted chemicals in your home and five Shaklee supplements to improve your children’s health.

We’ll also share news about Shaklee’s Landmark Study getting published in a peer-reviewed journal. This independent, clinical study shows how taking Shaklee supplements long term can improve your health and extend your life. And we share news about Shaklee’s Get Clean household product line being highlighted on the Oprah Winfrey show….yet again!

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In This Issue:
1) Are Today’s Kids The Sickest Generation?
2) Five Shaklee Supplements to Improve Children’s Health
3) Body Burden: Chemicals in the Body
4) Four Ways to Reduce Unwanted Chemicals in Your Home
5) Shaklee in the News: Landmark Study Published and Get Clean featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show…again!
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1) Are Today’s Kids The Sickest Generation?
Are today’s children becoming the sickest generation? Looking at the statistics on children’s health, across the board, paints an alarming picture…
ADHD – up a whopping 400% over the last 25 years.

Bi-Polar Disorder – 40-fold increase among children over the last decade.

Allergies – 40% of children now have allergies.

Asthma – up 160% in children under the age of 5 since 1980.

Autism – dramatic gains since the 1980’s with estimates now of 1 in 150 children in America today having an autism spectrum disorder.

Sleep Disorders - 25% of children have sleep disorders, which is also a precursor linked to obesity, asthma and allergies. Researchers have found that every additional hour per night a third-grader spends sleeping reduces the child's chances of being obese in sixth grade by 40 percent. If there was a magic number for the third-graders, it was nine hours, 45 minutes of sleep.

Jean Weiss of MSN Health and Fitness reports on the state of children's health:
“More kids are getting diagnosed with bipolar, ADHD, allergies, and asthma in this decade than in previous decades. Some attribute this increase to improved diagnosing, others to over-diagnosing. Still others view the sick-kid trend as the proverbial canary in the coalmine: More children are getting sick because they are fragile and affected by an increasingly industrialized world.
“I do think we are in the midst of an epidemic of these child disorders,” says Dr. Kenneth Bock, co-founder of the Rhinebeck Health Center and author of Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, Allergies (Ballantine Books, 2007). “I don’t believe it is all due to better diagnosis.”
Bock suggests that children predisposed to these medical conditions are more likely to manifest them after cumulative exposure to pollutants such as heavy metals, chemicals, pesticides, flame retardants, and chemicals from plastic additives to name a few. “All those kinds of things together are increasing the toxic load on children,” he says.
The simplest thing parents can do for their child is decrease their exposure to toxins, Bock says, whether it means eating pesticide-free food or avoiding heavy metals and harmful pollutants found in myriad products such as toys, computers, and clothing. “This is a recent phenomenon over the last 20 years,” says Brock. “We are living in a chemical soup, and it’s the kids that are the most susceptible.”


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2) Five Shaklee Supplements to Improve Children’s Health
Later in this newsletter we’ll talk about removing toxins in the home that can make a big difference in your children’s health. Right now, there are five Shaklee supplements that can go a long way in improving your children’s overall health, especially for children that are suffering from the issues highlighted earlier.

1) Incredivites: It’s the most comprehensive children’s multivitamin and multi-mineral on the market and also the most tooth friendly! These chewable tablets featuring dolphin, sea horse and fish designs come in three kid-friendly flavors: orange, grape and mixed berry. Incredivites provides the essential vitamins and minerals children need to build healthy bodies, without any artificial flavors, sweeteners, colors or preservatives. For more information on Incredivites and other Shakleebaby and ShakleeKid go to: See Here



2) Chewable Cal Mag Plus
While calcium is vital in building strong bones, it also supports cell membranes and aids the nervous system, especially in impulse transmission, which could improve a child’s behavior.

Magnesium also has a calming effect on the nervous system, helping to maintain normal muscle and nerve function, and is involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis. Children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have responded positively to supplementation from calcium, magnesium and other crucial minerals needed to build healthy bones.

Shaklee’s Chewable Cal Mag Plus comes in a tasty berry flavor and provides 1000 mg of elemental calcium, plus magnesium, Vitamin D and other critical nutrients. For more information, or to order it online go to: GO Here

3) Shaklee’s Meal Shake or Energizing Protein
Eating small portions of protein throughout the day can help even out a child’s energy. Shaklee’s Meal Shakes are a perennial favorite and a great tasting, easy to mix drink that packs extra nutrition into any meal or snack for kids. For those who want to avoid a milk protein product, Energizing Soy Protein delivers a tasty and healthy source of protein and provides critical nutrients to build good health that can easily mix into a fruit smoothie or in a child’s favorite juice. For more information on Shaklee Meal Shakes go to:

For more information on Shaklee’s Energizing Soy Protein go to:

4) Shaklee’s B-Complex
The B vitamins (also called “The Happy Vitamins”) have been linked to improved neural activity and are very helpful in reducing stress, mental confusion, irritability, mood changes, and insomnia. Shaklee’s B-Complex offers a complete B-Complex at the levels found in nature. Shaklee’s B-complex also has a patented folic-acid coating for best absorption of this critical nutrient. Getting a good healthy dose of B-Complex is important today as stress and sugar depletes B-vitamins in the body. For more information on Shaklee’s B-Complex online go to:

5) Shaklee’s OmegaGuard
Here’s a healthy fat that you want your child to have: Omega-3 fatty acids. Studies have found that children with learning disorders, including attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders, often have an essential fatty acid deficiency.

The right kinds of fat are needed to help the brain fire information efficiently from synapse to synapse. Essential Fatty Acids, like those found in Shaklee’s OmegaGuard, help brain cells receive the messages sent between synapses, thus eliminating the chatter and preventing the sending neuron from scooping up its own message.

Shaklee’s pharmaceutical-grade OmegaGuard provides a full spectrum of seven natural omega 3 fatty acids including EPA, DHA, ALA to support healthy heart, vision, brain and joint function. For more information on the world’s finest fish oil supplement go to:

The above five Shaklee supplements provide a good foundation for your children to enjoy better health, better learning, better sleeping, better energy and better brain function. For more overall information on children’s health go to:

Note for Sleep Issues: For sleep problems, a serving of Chewable Cal Mag Plus and an additional B-Complex to children before bed can promote restful sleep. And you may consider adding Shaklee’s Gentle Sleep Complex for more difficult sleep cases. If a child has trouble waking up in the morning, Energizing Protein right before bed can help balance their blood sugar levels for an easy morning wake up.

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3) Body Burden: Chemical Testing in the Body
“Body Burden” is a new phrase you’ll be hearing more about in the future. It’s a test that measures the levels of toxins and other industrial chemicals in the body (i.e. how much the body is burdened by chemicals). Below is an excerpt from a story on Body Burden that highlights the effects of chemicals on children and recently ran on CNN as part of their “Planet in Peril” series.

Most Americans haven't heard of body burden testing, also called biomonitoring in scientific circles, but it's a hot topic among environmentalists and public health experts who warn that the industrial chemicals we come into contact with every day are accumulating in our bodies and endangering our health in ways we have yet to understand. Many of the chemicals found are known to harm rats, but studies on humans are preliminary.
"We are the humans in a dangerous and unnatural experiment in the United States, and I think it's unconscionable," said Dr. Leo Trasande, assistant director of the Center for Children's Health and the Environment at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City
Trasande says that industrial toxins could be leading to more childhood disease and disorders.
"We are in an epidemic of environmentally mediated disease among American children today," he said. "Rates of asthma, childhood cancers, birth defects and developmental disorders have exponentially increased, and it can't be explained by changes in the human genome. So what has changed? All the chemicals we're being exposed to."
Trasande said children up to six years old are most at risk because their vital organs and immune system are still developing and because they depend more heavily on their environments than adults do.
"Pound for pound, they eat more food, they drink more water, they breathe in more air," he said. "And so [children] carry a higher body burden than we do."
For more information on body burden and chemical testing go to: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/22/body.burden/index.html
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4) Four Ways to Reduce Unwanted Chemicals in Your Home
Shaklee has always been about creating products in harmony with nature, whether that product is a multivitamin, shampoo, toothpaste, or a household cleaner. Changing brands to Shaklee is a significant move you can make to reduce the level of toxins and unwanted chemicals you and your family are exposed to everyday. Here are five Shaklee action steps you can do to greatly reduce your chemical exposure in the home.
1) Replace common household and laundry cleaning products with Shaklee’s Get Clean line of non-toxic cleaners. An easy way to do that in one fell swoop is to order the Get Clean Starter Special Edition Kit. Get Clean kit! For more information or to order it online go to:
2) Replace common personal care products with Shaklee’s healthier alternatives.
Popular toothpaste, deodorants, shampoos and body lotions all contain chemicals that accumulate in your body through your skin. In fact, check the warning label on your current toothpaste – it tells you to keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age! You won’t find that warning on Shaklee’s organic dentifrice toothpaste or other Shaklee personal care products - all of which are free from toxic chemicals & safe for you and your family. For a list of Shaklee’s personal care (Nutrition Therapy Skin Care products go to:
3) Add a Shaklee BestWater unit to your home.
There are well over two thousand contaminants found in U.S. drinking water since 1974, and most municipalities only test for a small fraction of those contaminants. Plus water treatment plants add chemicals to treat drinking water - like aluminum, chlorine and sodium. In addition to treating the water, contamination can also occur from lead in water pipes and/or bacteria and dirt from leaky pipes.
The best way to stop the inflow of chemicals and contaminants in your water is at the faucet itself. Shaklee offers three BestWater units to fit any budget that effectively remove chemicals and contaminants at the tap. The BestWater Pitcher Carafe delivers portable clean water you can put in the refrigerator. It reduces particles down to 15 microns, which is twice as small as what the Brita filter delivers. Shaklee’s MTS 2000 water filter or BestWater Reverse Osmosis water purifiers have consistently been rated a best buy over the years in leading consumer publications. And all Shaklee BestWater units will save you money over bottle water, not to mention that you won’t have to lug bottled water from the store! You’ll appreciate the convenience of your BestWater appliance. For more information on Shaklee’s BestWater units go to:

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4) Shaklee in the News
We're thrilled to announce the publication of the Shaklee Landmark Study in Nutrition Journal, an online, peer-reviewed international human nutrition journal. The direct link to the study abstract is at: http://www.nutritionj.com/content/6/1/30/abstract The study will also be indexed in PubMed Central, a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature published by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ensuring broad based availability of the study manuscript.
The study, entitled "Usage Patterns, Health, and Nutritional Status of Long-Term Multiple Dietary Supplement Users", is the first-ever study on long-term users of multiple dietary supplements. The study found these long-term supplement users (who were all Shaklee supplement users) comparatively to have markedly better health, as measured by higher blood levels of key nutrients and more optimal levels of key health biomarkers.
As a group, Shaklee users were 73% less likely to have diabetes and 39% less likely to have elevated blood pressure than non-users. Also, the Shaklee group was less likely to have suboptimal blood nutrient concentrations, and more likely to have favorable levels of key biomarkers including serum homocysteine, C-reactive protein, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides than either non-users of supplements or multivitamin/mineral users of non-Shaklee supplements.
This simply confirms what most of us believed already—that Shaklee long-term supplement users have better health than the two comparison groups—those who used just another company’s multivitamin and those who use no supplements at all.
We’re also excited to announce that Shaklee’s Get Clean was again featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show! This time featuring Dr. OZ, as part of their series on Aging. The segment showed how toxic cleaners in your home can contribute to the quickening of aging. Viewers were then encouraged to look for brands like Shaklee's Get Clean line. Oprah says she loves Shaklee’s Basic H2 all-purpose cleaner. She recommends it as a spot remover, too. For a picture of Oprah and Dr. Oz with the Shaklee Get Clean line of products go to: http://www2.oprah.com/health/oz/slide/20071105/oz_20071105_350_106.jhtml?promocode=HP13
For those who never saw Shaklee’s first appearance on Oprah during her Earth Day show, the link below goes to an edited 5-minute online video clip featuring Oprah talking about Shaklee, profiling our CEO's Shaklee story, and giving the Shaklee Get Clean products to her appreciative audience. http://www.shaklee.net/pws/library/flash/getclean-tv2.html
For another great article on Shaklee's leadership in the environmental movement, read "Shaklee: Green Before Green Was Cool" from CNN’s Money website go to: http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/17/news/companies/pluggedin_gunther_shaklee.fortune/index.htm

Also, the current issue (Nov. 13, 2007) of Women's Day also features the Get Clean Starter Kit as one of their giveaways in its Christmas 2007 issue to help readers get a clean start. We definitely agree with Women’s Day that the Get Clean Starter Kit would make a great Christmas present this year. As would a Shaklee AirSource or BestWater unit.

Join as a GOLD Ambassador - $299 get free product and 6 months of website free
Until then…

Yours in Health,

Is your Home Really Healthy

Well it's official, fall is here and that means the cold and flu season isn't far behind. However, we have you covered. In this issue, we share how to keep you and your family healthy throughout the cold and flu season.Colder weather also means closing up the house to make it insulated, keeping it nice and warm, but how healthy is your insulated home? And what effect does it have on the health of those who live inside? Get the real dirt on clean, and make your home a toxic-free zone.We also have a fun, short little quiz for you to test your vitality. Just how good are you feeling? And how good could you feel? We have the questions and THE answer.And finally our Cinch inspirational or "Cinspirational" Success Story of the month features Wanda who at the age of 48 cinched her way from a size 18 to a size 4/6! Proof positive that you can get fit and healthy, no matter what your age or gender!

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In this issue:1) How's Your Vitality?: A Quiz2) Staying Healthy through the Cold and Flu Season3) Are You Living in a Healthy Home?4) Spread the Word – Become a Gold Ambassador5) "Cinspirtational" Story of the Month:

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1) How’s Your Vitality?: A QuizRate your vitality by taking this quiz and rating yourself from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest)
Daily Energy Level ____
Immune Strength ____
Appearance of skin, hair and nails ____
Ability to manage stress ___
Healthy daily diet ___

Overall health and outlook ____

Total Up Your Vitality Score: ___

If you scored 17 and under:At least you’re honest. Now there’s nowhere to go but up. You’re guaranteed to see and feel the difference with Shaklee’s Vitalizer. Start by taking with glass half full.
If you scored 18 – 24:The good news is you are doing okay. The bad news is you’re doing okay. That’s a far cry from vitality. Time to take Shaklee’s Vitalizer every day. Rise and shine.
If you scored 25-30:You obviously care about taking care. What better reason than that to up the ante on your vitality by taking Vitalizer. Feel the difference with an unconditional money-back guarantee. Then share the health.Shaklee’s new Vitalizer redefines vitality and revolutionizes how nutrients are released into your body. It provides every vitamin and mineral your body needs, plus the most powerful antioxidant spectrum to protect your cells, critical anti-aging nutrients to protect your DNA and support healthy aging, seven omega-3’s to help reduce the risk of heart disease and guaranteed super-active probiotics to improve digestive health.It’s the most scientifically advanced nutrition program ever created—and it’s all in one convenient "vita-strip" that you take once a day.Order Vitalizer today online

And, for even better nutrition, try the Vitalizer Wellness Packs. Combines Vitalizer, Nutriferon and Energizing Protein or Cinch shakes. And remember, you save 10% when placing Vitalizer or any Vitalizer Wellness Pack on AutoShip, so it’s like getting your shipping free.
If your not a member sign-up here :
Tell a friend about this an recieve Free products!!!

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2) Staying Healthy through the Cold and Flu SeasonFall’s here and with the change of season comes colder weather, and the cold and flu season. However, there’s a lot you can do to help your family stay healthy.For starters, be proactive ahead of time instead of to waiting until someone gets sick and rushing off to the drugstore or the doctor’s office for medicine for your ailing family members. One way to be proactive this season is by using Shaklee’s Nutriferon. It’s the most researched and effective immune supplement on the market today.Dr. Kojima, the world-renowned immunologist, discovered interferon in 1954. Interferon has been used in treating cancer for years. After his discovery, Dr. Kojima spent over 40 years searching for a way to increase the body’s natural production of interferon, which is activated by the immune system when a virus attacks a cell. Interferon serves two important functions. It signals neighboring cells and triggers their resistance mechanisms, and it activates other immune cells that kill invading pathogens.His lifelong work resulted in the development of Shaklee’s Nutriferon, a powerful blend of natural plant extracts which have been clinically proven to support and stimulate our bodies’ natural immune response. Dr. Kojima serves on Shaklee’s Scientific Advisory Board, and Shaklee has the worldwide exclusive rights to this breakthrough immune product. With Nutriferon, you can boost your immune system safely and naturally. For more information on Nutriferon or to order it online go to:

And remember, you save 10% on Nutriferon when placing it as part of an AutoShip order.The Right Way to Stop a ColdIf do feel a little tickle in your throat or the early signs of a cold or flu, you’ll want to quickly take Shaklee’s Defend and Resist. It contains FOUR natural ingredients to support your immune system: echinacea, black elderberry, larch tree, and zinc. The benefits of zinc and echinacea to fight colds and flu are well known. Shaklee takes it a step further by adding larch, to stimulate the body’s natural resistance, and black elderberry, a rich source of powerful phytonutrients, to help maintain your immune system. Together, these four ingredients can stop a cold or the flu dead in its tracks if you catch it early enough! We strongly encourage you to keep a bottle of Defend and Resist on hand or in your purse, during the cold and flu season. For more information or to order Defend and Resist online go to:

Getting plenty of vitamin C is also a great way to stay healthy. Since our bodies can't store Vitamin C and it gets utilized quickly in times of illness, stress and other factors, you may need to take it at regular intervals to help with immunity and body stresses. Shaklee’s Chewable Vita-C is great to keep in a bowl around the house as a snack treat. Kids (and adults) love the tangy taste. And Shaklee’s all-natural Sustained Release Vita-C uses natural plant extracts to release vitamin C into your bloodstream, giving you protection hour after hour. For more information or to order Shaklee’s Vita-C products go to:
Not all flu’s are runny noses and stuffy heads. Stomach flu can be just as bad, or even worse! Did you know that having beneficial bacteria in your intestines could help you fight off illness? A large percentage of your immune cells are located in your gastrointestinal tract. The type of bacteria that inhabits your intestinal tract can have a profound influence upon your health, including your immune system. Only Shaklee’s Optiflora Probiotic Complex guarantees live delivery of millions of beneficial bacteria directly to your colon. It’s definitely the product to take at the first sign of stomach discomfort, whether it’s from the flu or food poisoning. For more information on Optiflora or to order it online go to:
Note that the Optiflora Probiotic is part of your Vitalizer daily strip – just another great reason to make Vitalizer the central part of your daily nutrition program.

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3) Watch this First The Toxic Brew


Are You Living in a Healthy Home?If your home is anything like the average U.S. home, you generate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each year (the Environmental Protection Agency designates toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach as hazardous waste).You wouldn't let your kids play with hazardous waste, so why would you let the baby crawl over a floor that's just been wiped with them? That's much more dangerous than the orange juice that was just there. How dangerous? Just take a look at these statistics.Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home.Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involved in poisoning.Organic pollutants, found in many common cleaners and even in air fresheners, are 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than outside.A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the "acute one-hour exposure limit" for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.Common cleaners give off fumes that have been linked to increasing the risk of your kids developing asthma, the most common serious chronic childhood disease. 1 in 13 school-aged children has asthma. Rates in children under five years old have increased more than 160% from 1980 – 1994.Children are highly vulnerable to chemical toxicants. Pound for pound of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food and breathe more air than adults. The implication of this is that children will have substantially heavier exposures than adults to any toxicants that are present in water, food or air.And the EPA says that only a fraction of the more than 75,000 registered chemicals have gone through testing for human health concerns.What's under your sink? Check off the following


Then discover the healthier Shaklee Get Clean alternatives.
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Switching to Get Clean products is good for the planet, healthier for your family, easier on your wallet and the products clean as good or better than the toxic cleaners you are using now. What’s not to like? It’s no wonder that Get Clean was recently featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show as one of her favorite green things, and the cleaning products she now uses in her home and her TV studio. For more information on Get Clean and ordering the Get Clean products go to: Gold Ambassador

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5) "Cinspirtational" Success Story of the Month: Shaklee’s revolutionary Cinch Inch loss program has only been available for about a year, and has already helped thousands upon thousands of people lose weight and inches – over a million inches and pounds lost in its first year! And as time goes on, the success stories get even more incredible! This month’s "Cinspirational" Story comes from Wanda, who at the age of 48 "cinched" her way from a size 18 to a size 4/6. Can you guess how many pounds and inches she lost? See the pictures and read her success story

l hope you enjoyed this month's issue and feel free to contact me by email or phone with any Shaklee related questions. I'm here for you and I appreciate you!

Yours in Health,

Tim Presley