Sunshine Family News – October 8, 2012 – The Herbs Place

Sunshine Family News,
October 8, 2012

Take NSP’s Habit of Health Challenge
Win $2500 Cash or a $250 Makeover/Spa Experience

Nature’s Sunshine’s Habit of Health Challenge is a 90-day commitment to using NSP products to achieve greater health and well-being. Focus on weight management, increased energy, strengthen a body system … anything you want!

Ever notice that it’s easier to start a diet or new exercise program when somebody else does it with you? Maybe it’s because we’re social creatures, and we don’t want to feel like we’re alone when we do something that might be difficult. Or maybe we just want to share with our friends and family what we’re up to.

Truth is, peers and family members can really help us stay accountable to our goals, including health and exercise. And accountability yields success.

So here’s what you do. Tell your friends and family that you’re out to win $2,500 in the NSP Habit of Health Challenge, and they can support you in your quest for good health.

The Challenge is the 90-day commitment to achieving better health using NSP products. Everyone who registers and completes the challenge will receive one FREE box of Super Trio® (http://is.gd/G18YhU) and a bag of Nature’s Harvest (http://is.gd/xxCATv).

This program is timed so you can make it through the holiday season while still maintaining a path to a healthy weight and good eating habits.

Plan to:
• feel better about yourself
• have more energy
• have clothes that fit better
• be happier

Tell your group members about the Challenge! If you and two or more of your members complete the challenge, you’ll receive your choice of 2 FREE Systems Packs (http://is.gd/VYzITm).

How to Participate
1. Visit www.naturessunshine.com/HOH by 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Oct. 31, 2012 and register for the program. Provide your name, account number, a head-to-toe picture of yourself, a paragraph describing your personal health challenges or goals, and a list of NSP products you will use for the challenge. (You MUST include a meal replacement product—SmartMeal®, Nutri-Burn®, Love and Peas, or Nature’s Harvest—and either Super Trio or Super Supplemental.)

2. Purchase and use your products in three, full consecutive months, beginning no later than Nov. 1, 2012.

3. Complete the challenge by Jan. 31, 2013. Then return to www.naturessunshine.com/HOH and submit your post-challenge, head-to-toe photo and a testimonial about how you feel different or better after using the products for 90 days. This must be received by February 15, 2013.

A panel of NSP reviewers will look for photos that demonstrate noticeable improvements and testimonials that describe specific health results. They’ll choose a $2,500 grand prize winner and four $250 spa/makeover experience winners.

Savings Tip
Add your Habit of Health order to your monthly Sunshine Rewards shipment and get FREE shipping and earn FREE products! More info on Sunshine Rewards (http://is.gd/JHlBWf).

Visit the NSP website for program rules and to register for the Challenge (http://is.gd/rN3Mdb).

Find a friend to join you in the Challenge. Get healthier together!

Why You Can Trust NSP’s Chinese Formulas
By Lynda Hammons, NSP Vice President, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs

The popularity of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) is on the rise. Globally, hundreds of millions of dollar are spent on TCM products each year. In the US, more than 1 million people annually use Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Nature’s Sunshine’s TCM products have a clear quality advantage over the competition. We spend millions of dollars each year on Quality Control testing, which involves 3 critical areas:

• True identification of raw materials so you can be assured the correct genus and species of plant is used.

• Distinguishing between the regions of origin of the plants so we can be confident that the optimum actives in the correct amounts are always present in each lot.

• 600 different tests and procedures for contamination, purity, potency and safety.

In truth, this could be a scary time to take herbal supplements from just any company. With tremendous growth in the industry, many companies with little experience are trying to produce herbal supplements without our same model of testing the products.

Anyone can encapsulate them and package them with professional-looking labels to make a “nice-looking” product. These companies aren’t required to be tested for purity, safety or potency.

We recently tested several other competitors’ TCM products in our quality labs. The results were surprising.

• Three competitors’ products tested positive for aristolochic acids. The FDA has warned consumers against taking products that contain aristolochic acids, because they have been associated with permanent kidney damage as well as certain types of cancers.

• One competitor’s product tested high for lead content.

• One had microbial contamination.

• We also tested five brands of cordyceps products alongside NSP Cordyceps. We found that NSP Cordyceps had the highest combination of cordycepic acid and adenosine per capsule.

While not every competitor had bad results, the evidence shows you probably want to think twice before choosing just any supplement.

Because we produce and test our own products, we don’t have to rely on third parties. Our strict and comprehensive testing for POTENCY, PURITY AND SAFETY allows you to be 100% confident that Nature’s Sunshine TCM formulas are the very best.

October Issue of Sunshine Horizons

NSP is getting the magazines into the Library area of the site really fast the past few months. If you haven’t seen an issue of the Sunshine Horizons magazine, check it out. It’s available as a PDF download, along with many other previous issues. Here’s the link:
http://is.gd/fvUjVE

October – Women’s Health Month

NSP’s monthly theme for October is Women’s Health. The product specials this month will be related to this topic with Natural Changes and Flash-Ease being on sale now. The latter part of the month will have Female Comfort and Cranberry/Buchu Concentrate on sale.

You can find great sales tools for this month’s focus at their website, such as retail displays, bag inserts, posters and more. The scientific update is about breast cancer and fiber. A great article to share with your customers. Check out all these available options at the NSP website:
http://is.gd/vrBAfR

We have an article on our blog website that you can copy (without the links) and pass on to your customers. Menopause Relief:
http://is.gd/ej4hhm

NSP’s Body Systems School 2012

Join NSP for a school in your area this year. This year’s seminars offer a brand-new meeting geared especially to members, customers and new managers.

• Learn the fundamentals of natural health. Discuss basic health needs, discover keys to being healthier. • Study all 10 body systems in depth. Learn biology, basic functions and common problems of each system.
• Discover health supplements that support each body system. Find out how to get yourself and your customers on the path to better health.
• Review the benefits of a Nature’s Sunshine business. We’ll cover sharing tools, quality, loyalty rewards program, proven business strategies and more.

Find a school near you!

Registration information:

Cost: $35 per person
Seminar time: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Call 1-800-223-8225 to register.

Materials you get to take home:

• Introduction to Natural Health workbook
• The new NSP from A to Z guide
• NSP’s brand-new Unsurpassed Quality DVD

Call 1-800-223-8225 to register.

10/13/2012	English	Hutchinson, KS	Ramada Hotel 1400 N. Lorraine Street 620-669-9311
10/13/2012	English	Indianapolis, IN	Hilton Indianapolis North 8181 North Shadeland Ave. 317-849-6668
10/13/2012	English	Lafayette, LA	Homewood Suites 201 Kaliste Saloom Road 337-264-6044
10/20/2012	English	Jamestown, NY	Chautauqua Suites 215 W Lake Road 716-269-7829
10/20/2012	English	Oak Brook, IL	Oak Brook Hills Marriott 3500 Midwest Road 630-850-5555
10/20/2012	English	St. Henry”s, OH
10/20/2012	English	St. Henrys, OH	Romers Catering 321 S. Eastern Ave. 419-678-8482
10/20/2012	English	The Woodlands, TX	Homewood Suites 29813 I-45 North 281-681-9199
10/27/2012	English	Altoona, PA	The Casino 300 Lakemount Park Blvd. 814-944-6775
10/27/2012	English	Marietta, OH	Comfort Inn 700 Pike Street 740-374-8190
10/27/2012	English	Southfield, MI	Westin Southfield Detroit 1500 Town Center 248-827-4000
11/3/2012	English	Nashville, TN	Embassy Suites – Airport 10 Century Boulevard 615-871-0033
11/10/2012	English	Denver, CO	DoubleTree Denver 3203 Quebec. St. 303-321-3333
11/10/2012	English	Irving, TX	Embassy Suites Hotel 4650 W. Airport Freeway 972-790-0093
11/10/2012	English	Kohler, WI	The American Club Highland Drive 800-344-2838
11/10/2012	English	Santa Clara / San Jose, CA	Santa Clara Marriott 2700 Mission College Blvd. 408-988-1500
11/17/2012	English	Acme, MI	Grand Traverse Resort 100 Grand Traverse Blvd. 231-534-6000
11/17/2012	English	Philadelphia, PA	Hilton Philadelphia Airport 4509 Island Avenue 215-365-4150

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Nature’s Sunshine’s Website Business-Building Resources

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Make the investment to spend hours on the website and find out what all is available to you there. There are links to the blog and Sunshine Community and forums. There are webinar, magazine and article archives.

My NSP Websites

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Other Business-Building Resources

Natural Health School – Free Herbalist Training Course

Nature’s Field – Free Subscription

NSP Business Builders Forum

Getting Health Questions Answered

NSP Forum – No longer Active – Search for posted responses

NSP Advisor – Specific questions about health

Product and Health Information by Steven Horne

Modern Herbal Education

Herbal Education Articles

Books, CDs, DVDs, Etc. – Building Your Own Library

Nature’s Treasure Chest – Ailment Guide

Sound Concepts – Nature’s Tools

Herb Allure

TreeLite.com

Online Herb and Dietary Supplement Information

PDR Health
PDR Health is an online source of health-related information that is written with the consumer in mind. It is broken into four main sections: disease overviews, treatment options, drug information (includes information on prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, herbs and nutritional supplements) and clinical trials.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and has become the largest reference source on the Internet. Type in the name of an herb, supplement, health condition, etc., and you will be guided to entries with extensive information. One word of caution: Anyone with computer access to Wikipedia can edit the entries. As a result, the entries are quite up to date, but there can also be significant misinformation.

Dietary Supplement Information Bureau and Natural Products Foundation
This website contains information about the supplement industry as well as herbs, vitamins and homeopathic remedies. It also has a link to an online version of the Dietary Supplement Information Bureau’s publication, Field Guide to Herbal Dietary Supplements.

Mayo Clinic
The renowned Mayo Clinic weighs in on health and healthy lifestyles. This site covers health and nutrition at every stage in life.

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