18.05.2006 20:00:00

Herbalife Adds UK Sports Specialist Ralph Rogers, M.D., Ph.D. FECSS, FACSM FFSEM (RCSI) to Medical Advisory Board

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) has expanded its MedicalAdvisory Board (MAB) with the addition of Ralph Rogers, M.D., Ph.D., aspecialist in sports, musculoskeletal medicine and exercisephysiology, based in Birmingham, UK, where he is also a ResearchFellow of Wolverhampton University.

Herbalife's Scientific and Medical Advisory Boards are chaired byDavid Heber, M.D., director of the Center for Human Nutrition at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The SAB guides productresearch and development, focusing on the quality and benefits ofproducts. The MAB members educate distributors on product usage andgive health-news updates through multiple company channels and livetraining events around the world. The MAB also provides an educationalresource for doctors and healthcare professionals.

Rogers is a private practitioner specializing in sports medicine,rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries, human performance,corporate wellness and occupational medicine. He has lectured andtutored for the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine(BASEM) and is a former chairman of BASEM (West Midlands), andconsults with various companies dealing in sports medicine and humanperformance in both the U.S. and Europe.

Additionally, Rogers is currently medical advisor to the Trinidadand Tobago World Cup Football Team, club doctor for the WalsallFootball Club, West Midlands England and sports physician for theWarwickshire County Cricket Club in Birmingham, UK.

He has been awarded numerous fellowships and has publishedextensively in his areas of expertise. He earned a Diploma in SportsMedicine from The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the RoyalCollege of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physiciansand Surgeons of Glasgow, UK; PH.D., in exercise physiology fromUniversity of Maryland, U.S.; M.D. in medicine, surgery and obstetricsand bachelor of science degree, Catholic University of Leuven,Belgium.

Other members of Herbalife's MAB include Mario Rosenberg, M.D.,U.S.; Luigi Gratton, M.D., M.P.H., U.S.; Marion Flechtner-Mors, Ph.D.,Germany; Nataniel Viuniski, M.D., Brazil; Ryuzaburo Tanino, M.D.,Japan; Yoshio Yoshimoto, M.D., Japan; Ali Kocailik, M.D., Turkey; AllaPogozheva, M.D., Russia; and Belong Cho, M.D., Korea.

About Herbalife

Herbalife is a global network marketing company that sellsweight-management, nutritional supplements and personal care productsintended to support a healthy lifestyle. Herbalife products are soldin 62 countries through a network of more than one million independentdistributors. The company supports the Herbalife Family Foundation andits Casa Herbalife program to bring good nutrition to children.Herbalife investor relations can be found at http://ir.herbalife.com/.

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