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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Inaugural Herbalife Nutrition Day in Asia Pacific Region on October 25

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Herbalife, a global nutrition company, today announced that it will be celebrating its inaugural Herbalife Nutrition Day on October 25 across 15 Asia Pacific markets including Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Wellness Tour, the Herbalife Nutrition Day is a large-scale public event that is being held for the first time ever by Herbalife. A variety of activities will be conducted across the countries to raise awareness of the importance of good nutrition and healthy active lifestyles to our overall well-being. As a community-based event, over 30,000 people, including community leaders, health care professionals, Independent Herbalife Members and their family and friends are expected to attend the Herbalife Nutrition Day across Asia Pacific.

"We are eagerly anticipating our first-ever Herbalife Nutrition Day in Asia Pacific. With trends of rising obesity, an aging population and increasing health consciousness in this region, it is vital that people are made aware that good nutrition and active lifestyle habits can go a long way in helping them lead healthier and more fulfilling lives," said Mr William M. Rahn, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Herbalife Asia Pacific.

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To all medical students and health-related courses, have you ever wanted to learn more about health than what is taught in the classroom? Have you ever felt that maybe there are other things that you can do to improve the health of our fellow Filipinos? Don’t you want to think outside the box?

Well, we have a conference for you called, Outside the Box! This conference is in its 2nd year already and this year, our theme is “Shifting Sands: Youth Participation in Healthcare Challenges for 2015 and Beyond.” It is a conference about MGDs, and ASEAN economic integration with workshops that will help you be equipped for these issues for 2015 and BEYOND.

So what are MDGs? MDGs or Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations last 2000. These goals are the following:

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"We can run away from our past and start a new life or we can let it dictate our life and thus affecting the way we are now."

Thomas Strauss experienced the cruelty of life at a young age. He saw how both of his parents died with pain and agony. Its his choice if he would let his horrible past affect him. He can control it. But he didn’t. Instead he let the pain and the agony that he felt as a child consumed him.

All his life he felt so alone. And the only way to escape this feeling is to take away somebody’s life. By doing this, he believes that he’s doing them a favor, buy ending their sufferings in a painless way.

As individuals, we tend to follow our own feelings and we regret to look at the bigger picture. The people would hate him. The family of his victims neither may or may not forgive him.

Here is our short story for the day.