Herbalife Welcomes Mexican Doctor to its Nutrition Advisory Board

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Herbalife Ltd. (NYS: HLF) welcomes Florisa Barquera, M.D., an expert in nutrition and the issues related to obesity and nutritional disorders, to its Nutrition Advisory Board.

The Nutrition Advisory Board is comprised of leading experts from around the world in the fields of nutrition and health who inform, educate and train Herbalife independent distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle. The board is chaired by David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)*.

Barquera is a member of the Mexican Academy for Obesity and has collaborated in several studies conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica into the impact of poor nutrition on the population of Mexico. She is also a member of the Academic Development Committee at Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico City. She has authored and co-authored a number of articles and books on the subject of obesity and is regularly used by the media to provide comment on, and insight into, the nutrition situation in Mexico.
Barquera received her medical degree from Universidad Anáhuac and her master's in Clinical Nutrition from the same university.