Green Go'Fer Health
Everyday Health
Staying Healthy and Preventing Illness Every Day

If you want to stay Healthy and Prevent Illness,
Take Matters into your own Hands!

Why Do We Get Sick?

Our health care system here in the US, which is made up of 3 major industries - the medical community, the large pharmaceutical companies, and the insurance companies, is entirely based on your getting sick. Nothing actually happens until you either contract a disease or are worried that you have a disease. The entire system is based upon detection and treatment - the concept of prevention is rarely discussed and when it is, usually it is in the context of avoiding a life threatening situation or the recurrance of a life threatening situation. So what the Go'Fer is saying here is that the system allows you to get sick and is not set up in any way to prevent you from getting sick.

Understanding the system is the first step, because if you understand that trillions of dollars are being made insuring you against illness and then allowing you to get sick and treating your illness, you will quickly realize that the only person on the planet who can do something about your health and the PREVENTION of illness and disease is YOU! Nobody else cares. Now we make that as a general statement - of course people care about their spouses and their children - but think about this... If there really were a general caring about health, would tobacco products be available? would we serve alcohol to people and allow them to get into their vehicles?

So What's a Person to Do?

Once you realize that you are responsible for your own well-being (not your doctor), the first step is to understand what we are up against these days to stay well. The human body is designed to be self-maintaining. As a machine, our bodies are self diagnosing and self curing - BUT, and here's the kicker, only when it is working properly. This is a truly magnificent thing almost beyond comprehension in its complexity. At the risk of oversimplifying, we are going to lump illnesses into two general categories - infectious disease and degenerative disease. These are the two things that our bodies must defend against every day. To ward off infectious disease, we have a complex defense system called the Immune System. Our immune systems essentially wage war against invaders from the world we live in. Degenerative disease is really not well understood. It is more than just a wearing out of structures and organs. It is a decline in the ability of our body to regenerate the tissues and systems as easily as it did in our younger days. When the life expectency was only 40 or 50 years - there was very little degenerative disease. Now as the life expectency continues to increase, we see a comensurate increase in the amount of degenerative disease.

However, in the case of either infectious or degenerative disease, there is one thing that is true - we cannot hope to prevent these conditions unless we provide what the body needs to do its job. At Green Go'Fer Health, we firmly believe that the quality of our lives and the number of years we are around can be increased by putting the right things into our body and developing some healthy habits.

What is Everyday Health?

Everyday health is the Go'Fer's term for preventative health care. As the name suggests, it is something we participate in every single day - OK, if you miss a day, you just pick it up the next day. We don't want to sound threatening, but if you do not follow some of the Go'Fer's guidelines, you are headed for a life that gets increasingly less joyful and filled with medication and surgery - both of which tend to have negative side effects - and things will continue to go downhill as you get older. Remember - the best the medical community is going to do is encourage you to detect your problems early; they don't talk about avoiding the problems.

So what we are trying to accomplish? Essentially four things

1) Reduce our total body weight to healthy levels and maintain it.
2) Develop daily habits that promote wellness - eating habits, exercise, other.
3) Provide nutritional elements necessary to maintain a healthy immune system.
4) Provide nutritional elements to support regeneration of organs, tissues, & systems.
5) Provide as much defense against the aggregate toxicity of our environment as possible.

Key Information to Start with:

The Go'fer has a few key statements that are the basis for preventative health care. They are not complicated; they make a lot of sense. In fact, they are so simple that you might be tempted to dismiss them - DON'T! If you haven't heard this from your doctor - there's a reason...your doctor, the pharmaceutical companies and the health insurance companies DO NOT MAKE ANY MONEY UNLESS YOU GET SICK OR ARE WORRIED ABOUT GETTING SICK. They all have trillions of reasons to allow you to get sick - they are in the business of detecting and treating illness, not in the business of preventing illness. Here are our basic premises for disease prevention:

1) Until your body gets the nutrition it needs, you will feel hungry!
2) Your immune system is losing the war against disease!
3) All of the food we eat, even the "healthy stuff", is mineral deficient!
4) We have to regenerate faster than we degenerate!
5) Regular daily exercise is NOT an option!

The following represents the Green Go'Fer program for making yourself as healthy as possible, warding off infectious disease or quickly recovering if you contract one, and postponing the effects of degenerative disease for as long as possible. This is our program; it is our opinion. We know that it works because we ourselves have followed it and encouraged others to do the same. We know the pitfalls because we've fallen into them. Our program requires that you spend money on various products and we have links to those product pages. We've hand picked these products because we know they work and we know they work because we have taken them and in many instances continue to take them on a daily basis. None of the information contained here or anywhere else in this website has been reviewed by the FDA and neither the information nor the products are intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease.

Goals/Behavior/Attitude
We talk about this throughout this website. Any program dealing with your health begins and ends with you. Your willingness to go through periods of discomfort, persevering when you don't want to, will always make the difference between your success or your return to unhealthy habits. You have got to want it! You have got to believe that sticking to the program is going to help you live a longer life and that those years will be healthy and happy. The first 3-4 weeks are critical and likely to cause the most discomfort - you might even feel like you are getting sick as toxins stored in your body are released and circulated so your body can get rid of them. You should commit to at least 90 days - that's usually long enough to reverse the cycle of illness and disease and have you noticeably feeling more energetic and healthy. In the words of the late Jim Valvano, basketball coach for the North Carolina State Wolf Pack, "Don't give up; don't ever, ever give up!"

Some Bad Habits
We'll keep this as short and sweet as possible - DON'T SMOKE TOBACCO PRODUCTS. If you are smoking, quit! There is nothing you could do that is more toxic than sucking tobacco smoke into your body - you are killing yourself. Do whatever it takes to stop. If you can avoid alcohol as well it's a plus. Alcohol is also a toxin and it is eliminated from the body by your liver. Unfortunately your liver has more to do than just eliminate alcohol. It's job is to filter impurities and toxins out of the blood. If you make it work too hard to eliminate the alcohol, it can't do the rest of its job.

Both alcohol and tobacco create dependencies - physical, psychological, and emotional. Ultimately it is the chemistry that makes the dependency and habits are built around them as well as peer pressure, social surroundings, stress level. It takes roughly 3 weeks to break an old habit and build a new one. It will take 6 months to a year or longer to repair the physiological damage done by constant tobacco or alcohol usage. Today would be a good day to stop.

Fighting the Toxins
In the Weight Loss section of our site we talk about Cleansing Products, supplements that you can use periodically to remove unwanted substances and toxins from your body. It is very important to the maintenance of overall health and well-being to cleanse and detox on a regular basis. The Go'Fer recommends that it be done 4 times a year (but at least twice). We have another product that is easy to use and works while you sleep. You may have seen them advertised on TV - the Detoxing Foot Patches. Based on Chinese herbal medice and reflexology, these patches are attached to your feet with adhesive pads and, while you sleep, they draw toxins out of your body at the point of contact. They truly work and are very easy to use.

Managing your Weight
We are not going to say a lot about weight loss and weight management on this page of the site either. We have an entire section of the website devoted to this area of preventative health care. You can learn a lot about it in the Weight Loss section.

What we will say is that people in the US are generally fat - we decided to use the term fat rather than overweight or carry a few extra pounds because FAT is more offensive. We have made a sport out of overeating. We invented the concept of all you can eat buffet restaurants. We practice gluttony as a religion. Frankly, it's disgusting. And it's just another bad habit - we don't know when to stop eating.

Part of this epidemic of obesity is because we are not eating the right things and, as the Go'Fer points out, if we are not giving the body what it needs to function properly, we will continue to feel hungry. I heard a statistic that is simply staggering - every day, in the US alone, 50,000,000 cans of Pepsi Cola are consumed. 50 MILLION cans - and that's just regular Pepsi and Pepsi is the #2 cola. Each 12 oz. can of Pepsi contains about 5 teaspoons of sugar and a teaspoon is roughly 30 grams. Do the math here - 1.5 billion grams of sugar from Pepsi Cola. How much is that? Well it's 3.3 million pounds or 1,650 tons of refined sugar. JUST from PEPSI. And we wonder why children are being diagnosed with diabetes or being prediabetic before they get out of their teen years. We wonder why glucose meters are being advertised on TV like cell phones in your favorite color. How much money is going to be made if the medical community and the big pharmaceutical companies can treat 60% of the population for 80% of their lives for a condition like diabetes. There is no profit in prevention and there is no profit in cure.

OK - that little tirade fits nicely into the next topics. Since the maintenance of our health is clearly our own responsibility, what do we have to do to get things in order.

What are we eating these days?
It's probably better to title this section - What are we NOT eating these days - or How are we eating these days. In 1936, the USDA (Department of Agriculture) released a report stating that the soil on American farms was dangerously low in mineral content - minerals that are needed in the diet for proper body function. Since our bodies cannot make minerals, and since nothing has been done by the farming community or the chemical companies to restore minerals to the soil, it is safe to assume that all of us have spent our entire lives or darn close to it with mineral deficient diets reducing the efficiency of our body function (many of these minerals are co-factors in bodily functions) and seriously compromising our immune systems.

Add to that our crazy, irregular eating habits - obsession with "fast food" - reliance on sugar and other simple carbohydrates for quick energy - metabolic peaking and crashing from that fast energy fix - love affair with fried foods and saturated fats - and we have the recipe for the plague of the 21st century. The plague has several components. Overweight - High Blood Pressure - High Cholesterol - High Blood Sugar. Other than the overweight part, is it any surprise that each of the other three elements can be and are being treated with long term prescription medication in increasing doses. And should the conditions evolve into heart issues - it's nothing a short stay in the hospital and some surgery can't fix temporarily. Diabetes - just move to insulin. Cancer - Surgery, Radiation, and Chemotherapy. And just to cement the deal - let's use the increasing occurance of these conditions to predict the increase in the occurance of these conditions. But let's not do anything to change the root cause of the condition - much of which can be traced to our own daily habits. Oh - and if all else fails - blame genetics. Simply remove every shred of responsibility from the patient and make poor health an expectation and an inevitability.

THAT'S SIMPLY INSANE! You can make a difference. You can change the odds. You are in charge of your own health and well being. And it's never too late to start doing something. Well I guess there are times when it appears to be too late, but if you are reading this page - it isn't too late for you!

Energy/Exercise
Oh boy - Exercise - one of the Go'Fer's favorite topics. One of the problems with exercise is that we have this notion that an exercise program is a painful, time consuming event where we have to exhaust ourselves or sweat our behinds off. That's simply not true and is more of an excuse not to exercise than anything else. Why exercise? Two reasons! First reason - exercise raises the heart rate and blood pressure; it makes you use your lungs to get oxygen into your body; and it puts stress on your muscular system. The body's response to stress on the muscular system is to build more muscle. That brings us to the second reason - the only place that fuel is burned by the body for energy is in the mitochodria in muscle cells. The more you exercise, the more fuel you burn and the more muscle you build. The more muscle there is, the more fuel you are capable of burning - like getting a bigger furnace to manage your weight. Our body functions better when we force it to work - we are designed for things to flow. When things sit around is when the problems start. Circulatory system and digestive sytem work best when stuff is moving through and nothing gets things moving like exercise. Nervous system works better and your endocrine system will start to produce hormones that make you feel good - some of the most powerful "drugs" on the planet are the hormones produced in the human brain - exercise promotes positive results; lethargy promotes negative results.

But what kind of exercise are we talking about? Well there's nothing wrong with going to the gym and spending 30 minutes on a treadmill or jogging or riding a bike of taking a step aerobics class - but let's get to the bottom line. If you made yourself take a brisk 30 minute walk every day, you would be exercising and, especially if you aren't doing anything now, that would do you a world of good. 45 minutes would be even better. Just force yourself to do it until it becomes a habit - usually about 3 weeks. If you miss a day, just start again the next day. That's all it takes. As it gets easier, all you need to do is to pick up your pace and start walking up some hills. You'll feel the difference in a few weeks - take your time - do what you can and then push yourself to do a little more each day.

Eating for your Health and Supplementing
If you have gotten this far in your reading, this section will make a lot of sense. Just eating sensibly; just eating so-called healthy foods; limiting your portions; snacking on dried fruit and nuts and seeds; will not do the trick. Even if you eat only certified organically grown produce and organically grown livestock is not going to be enough. That's just the way it is. If you want to live as long as possible in the best condition possible, you will have to take supplements. Depending upon your age, your gender, your current health condition - these supplements can vary. In this section we are going to talk about what we believe everyone should, at a minimum, be adding to their diet every single day. We don't want you to be choking down 50 pills and capsules two or three times a day. We want to make it manageable so that you will continue to do it.

You are going to have to spend your money to supplement your diet, because although your health insurance will underwrite the cost of your prescription drugs, we don't know of any program that will underwrite the cost of your supplements. Of course the cost that you pay for getting that benefit from the insurance companies is that you have to develop the illness first.

We strongly recommend that at a minimum you take some nutritional supplements every day. Our reasoning here is that regardless of your diet, it is unlikely that the food you are eating is providing the necessary nutrition that your body needs - especially minerals. And remember our comment at the beginning of this discussion - that you will continue to feel hungry until your body gets the nutrition it needs. If the body isn't getting enough from the food you eat, and the food is the only source you use for nutrition, well - you are going to eat and eat and eat and still be hungry - all that will happen is that you will gain weight and fat.

We don't sel a lot of products at Green Go'Fer Health and it is likely that we will decrease the number of products over time. There's a good reason for this - we don't sell anything that we don't take or that we haven't tried. We stand behind the products we sell and we rarely if ever will sell more than one product in a particular category - we are not a supermarket for nutritional products. We have taken the time to make choices on your behalf through years and years of experience and trial and error. We are going to talk about 4 products - Overall Nutrition, Essential Fatty Acids, Full Spectrum Minerals, and a unique product that has no real category.

We also recommend that you take a mineral supplement. For this we recommend Coral Calcium and specifically we have a product called Coral Calcium 2K Plus. Coral Calcium is an excellent source of Calcium, Magnesium and many other trace minerals. Coral Calcium 2k Plus is fortified with extra vitamins and Vitamin D to make sure that the Calcium is actually getting into your body. This is one of the best values for Coral Calcium that you can find anywhere.

In the world of nutrition, the term "essential" has a very specific meaning. It means that your body cannot synthesize that nutrient from other nutrients - it must be directly ingested and absorbed. Minerals are essential nutrients. Some amino acids are also essential. And Essential Fatty Acids must be ingested. The best source for essential fatty acids are fish oils particularly from cold water fish such as salmon or fish that live deep in the ocean. The problem many people have is that fish oil products - well - they taste fishy and that fishy taste has been known to cause some burping and the repeat of the bad taste.

The last product that we think everyone should consider is relatively new on the market but shows amazing promise for health maintenance and for assisting with health issues. The product is called StemEnhance. There has been a great deal of media controversy around the morality of doing research with embryonic stem cells - the cells that form in a developing human embryo and then differentiate themselves, multiply, and develop in the many different organs and tissue types in a human being. The process defies description.

What has been lost in the media's rush to present controversial topics is some very relevent information on Stem Cells. As an embryo develops, it soon becomes a fetus. Once the developing baby becomes a fetus, it still produces stem cells only from this point forward and until the day we die, those stem cells are called Adult Stem Cells. They still have all the same properties; they are capable of differentiating into any cell type in the human body; they are capable of multiplying as that cell type; and they are believed to be the primary renewal and repair mechanism in our bodies. These cells are produced in the bone marrow and reseach has been done where a person's own stem cells are "harvested" from their bone marrow and them injected either directly into a distressed organ or into an artery feeding a distress organ with remarkable results. No controversy, a painful procedure, but incredible stories of recovery - all documented in the medical research. It seems that adult stem cells are attracted to distressed areas of the body where they change into the appropriate tissue type and multiply. This is probably how a cut heals. As we age, the adult stem mechanism becomes weaker and slows down - production of and circulation of the adult stem cells diminishes. This is where StemEnhance comes into the picture.

StemEnhance is an aquabotanical - a plant that lives in water, fresh water in this case. The plant contains a bacterium call aphanizomenon flos-aquae, and this bacterium when ingested causes a rise in the adult stem cell output in the bone marrow and in circulation by as much as 30%. This has been fully documented in the literature, and the summary of findings is available on this website. Because this is a nutritional product, we are prohibited by the FDA of making any health claims regarding this product. We are also encouraged by the manufacturer not to share any stories of people who have used the product. What we will say is that based upon adult stem cell research and research with the Aphanizomenon flos-aquae bacterium is that StemEnhance can increase your own adult stem cell production. This would be of particular interest to athletes looking to improve their recovery times and ability to perform, anyone wanting to maintain optimum health with an active lifestyle, and persons with specific health challenges as an alternative to or in additon to convential treatments. StemEnhance also comes in StemEquine (for horses) and StemPets (for dogs) and the last time I checked, animals don't lie about their health. The Go'Fer would no doubt agree.

These products provide a very firm foundation for daily supplementation and we believe that they are certainly among the best products available on the market today. We try to offer the best possible prices that we can. There are certainly a lot of choices out there and a lot of very specific products. We think that this is a good place to start without having to put new cabinets in the kitchen. Eat right, exercise, manage your weight and supplement - every day.

Green Go'Fer Health, a division of Green Go'Fer Distributing, is a company committed the delivery of products that make a difference in the world. In short - we want you to live a long, healthy life on a clean, non-toxic planet. Statements made on this website have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any disease.

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