JERUSALEM, March 12 (Chinese media) -- An Israeli woman
charged against Herbalife International and its Israeli affiliate, Herbalife
Israel, for its products causing her chronic liver disease, local media reported
Thursday.
The 54-year-old Mali Nir claimed that products
marketed by the California-based nutritional-supplements and weight-control
company and its Israel affiliate destroyed her health and caused the risk of
future liver failure necessitating a transplant, local daily Ha' aretz said on
its website.
Nir submitted the lawsuit to district court and
demanded a compensation of 2.5 million shekels (approximately 590,000 U.S.
dollars) from Herbalife.
Nir told Ha'aretz that she began taking Herbalife
supplements in 1998 and even signed on as a Herbalife distributor. In 2001, she
discovered a serious liver damage after she began to experience fatigue and
weakness.
Her liver function reportedly returned to normal when
she stopped taking the supplements, but with indications of cirrhosis of the
liver, along with problems that included pain, chronic fatigue, weakness and
insomnia.
A medical opinion from Israeli Hadassah Hospital
internist Dr. Mayer Brezis was attached to the lawsuit, stating that research
literature from the 1990s reported the risk of liver damage from herbal
products, and that there was a high probability that the Herbalife products
caused Nir's liver problems.
Israeli researchers documented 12 cases of severe
liver damage similar to Nir's in patients who used Herbalife products like the
ones she took, according to the suit.
Herbalife Israel said in a response that the company
had not yet received the lawsuit.
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