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Hughes, whose parents were divorced soon after his birth in , was raised in Lynwood, California, outside of Hollywood. By ninth grade, Hughes had dropped out of high school. He became involved in drug use and by the age of 16 was sent to the Cedu School, a private residential home for emotionally disturbed and troubled teenagers. It was there that Hughes developed a knack for salesmanship, rehabilitating himself by selling door-to-door raffle tickets in support of the school.
By the end of his tenure, Hughes had joined the school's staff. Another turning point for Hughes came at the age of 18, when his mother died due to an overdose of diet pills. As Hughes would tell it, according to Inc. Eventually, she went to a doctor to get some help, and he prescribed After several years of using it, she ended up having to eat sleeping pills for her to sleep at night.
And after several years of doing that, her body basically began to deteriorate. Hughes set out to develop a dieting program based on herbal and botanical products that would enable people to lose weight safely.
Before founding Herbalife, Hughes the salesman received another kind of training when, in , he began selling the Slender Now diet plan from multilevel marketer Seyforth Laboratories. Hughes quickly rose to become one of the pyramid's top earners. When that operation collapsed, Hughes joined another multilevel marketer, selling Golden Youth diet products and exercise equipment.
By , however, Hughes, then 23 years old, decided to form his own company. Together with Richard Marconi, former manufacturer of the Slender Now products, Hughes developed the first Herbalife line of diet aids.
Marconi, who claimed to hold a Ph. The Herbalife plan involved limiting meals to one per day and supplementing the diet with protein powders and a regimen of as many as 20 pills per day.
Hughes, described by Inc. Booking two- to three-hour slots on cable television, including the USA Cable Network, Herbalife was an early purveyor of the so-called 'infomercial. Herbalife grew rapidly. By , the company appeared on Inc. Yet, as early as January , the Food and Drug Administration FDA began receiving complaints of nausea, diarrhea, headaches, and constipation, which were attributed to the use of Herbalife products.
Herbalife distributors reportedly were instructed to assure customers that these side effects were the result of the body purging itself of toxins. By , when the company published that year's edition of the Herbalife Official Career Book--a guide given to distributors that contained a full product list and descriptions of the uses and benefits for each product, as well as advice on building their Herbalife sales--the FDA took action against the company.
Among the complaints leveled against the company was a number of the claims Herbalife made for its products in the Career Book. The Herbal-Aloe drink, for example, was said to help treat kidney, stomach, and bowel 'ulcerations'; and Herbalife Formula 2 was said to be a treatment for 75 conditions ranging from age spots to bursitis to cancer, herpes, and impotence.
In the summer of , the FDA sent Herbalife a 'Notice of Adverse Findings' requiring the company to remove the mandrake and poke root ingredients--both considered unsafe for food use--of Slim and Trim Formula 2, while finding questionable the existence of 'food-grade' linseed oil also in the product.
In response, Herbalife removed the mandrake and poke root and promised to modify the product claims found in the Career Book. The company's troubles increased several months later when Canada's Department of Justice filed 24 criminal charges for false medical claims and misleading advertising practices against Herbalife.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, accusing them of 'grossly exceeding their authority by issuing false and defamatory statements and by engaging in a corrupt trial-by-publicity campaign against the company. In the five years we've been in business, literally billions of portions of Herbalife products have been consumed by millions of people.
And we have never been sued or subjected to any formal proceedings by the FDA. Although Hughes would withdraw the lawsuit the following year, Herbalife began to suffer from the negative publicity surrounding not only its products, but also its marketing tactics.
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