Greens First was mentioned in Allure Magazine, April 2008 issue as a favorite product of the medical doctor interviewed for the anti-aging article!

- Jeannette Graf, M.D.
Former Professor of Dermatology, New York University Medical Center

“Every morning, I have an alkalizing cocktail to start my day.  My favorite kind, Greens First, actually tastes sweet and give me tons of energy!”   - Jeannette Graf, M.D.

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Drink Your Veggies!

David Mendosa
Living With It
Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun.

Maybe some day I will question the advice of the American medical establishment to eat the 2.5 cups of vegetables that they say I should eat every day. Already I doubt the wisdom of eating starchy vegetables, peas, and beans, and avoid almost all fruit except avocados, green peppers, and lemons (in the form of True Lemon). But so far I still think that it's a good idea to eat lots of the good veggies.

Except that I haven't been eating enough. Oh, for lunch I do get my big salad, which usually includes lettuce, Brocco Sprouts, chia seeds, avocados, and green peppers. It's my main meal. But that alone doesn't give me enough of the good veggies. And it's not enough variety to make sure that I cover all the nutritional bases.

So I started to drink my veggies. My wonderful new chiropractor, who I'm seeing for my sore shoulder, gave me the idea.

"The one major addition to what you eat, David, might be greens powder," he told me after reviewing my diet. Isn't it strange that chiropractors are so much more concerned with nutrition than MD’s?

I listened to my chiropractor's advice. As someone who has diabetes I know that I have an impaired immune system and need the best possible nutrition to make up for it.

My chiropractor drinks three types of greens powder himself. Like many chiropractors, he also sells these powdered vegetables in his office. But he recommends only one. He says that the others taste too bad for most people.

The brand he recommends is Greens First powder by Doctors For Nutrition/ Ceautamed Worldwide, LLC. Since I thought that I knew that greens powder tastes like pond scum, I was properly dubious. But I tried a free sample.

The sample was inviting. It smelled fresh. And it tasted great when mixed with nothing but pure water.

So I did a little research. The label says that one scoop of 9.4 grams has 45 calories, of which about 5 are net carbohydrates. So it passed my second test.

The label says that one scoop has the "antioxidant power of 10+ servings of fruits and vegetables." That comes from 49 different foods.

Sounds good, but too much for me to intellectually digest. So I went to the Web for further research.

There I discovered a review that lead me to a book by a dermatologist, Jeannette Graf, M.D. Her book, Stop Aging, Start Living (New York: Crown Publishers, 2007) recommends greens power, which she calls "the cornerstone" of her plan to stop aging.

"Greens powders are nothing fancier than a powdered form of vegetable juice," she writes. "You mix the powder with water and drink. Most notably, these powders are rich sources of wheat and barley grasses, sprouted grains, broccoli, kale, and other green vegetables. Wheat, barley and other cereal grasses in particular extremely rich in antioxidants, chlorophyll, protein, vitamins, and minerals. The grasses -- the youngest green sprouts of these cereal grains -- are actually much more nutritious than the grains (wheat, barley, kamut) that they produce. They are particularly rich in polyphenols, the colorful pigments in fruits and vegetables that have been shown to promote optimal health."

Dr. Graf says that her favorite brand is Greens First. The Greens+ brand runs a close second. All the other brands taste so bad that you need to dilute their taste with fruit juice, something that's absolutely out of my diet.

So I bought a month's supply of Greens First and Greens+ and am alternating. But as soon as I use up my supply of Greens+ I will concentrate on the much better tasting Greens First powder.

You can buy Greens First from your healthcare provider or GreensFirst.com. A month's supply will run you about $40.

Now that I drink my daily veggies I'm a lot more satisfied with my diet. I may even stop aging!!

Update April 19, 2009:
New research suggests that vegetable juice may help people like us -- those who have the metabolic syndrome -- to lose weight. A study conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine and presented at this week's Experimental Biology Meeting found that volunteers who drank at least 8-ounces of low sodium vegetable juice lost four pounds over 12 weeks. On the other hand, those who followed the same diet but drank no juice lost just one pound.

Joya Fabrizio, CA – Front Desk Manager For Busy Doctor’s Office

 

Hello, I’m Joya Fabrizio. I’m the front desk manager for a very busy chiropractic office and I have my own person story! Couple of points I’d like to bring out….first of all I’m a very, very big coffee drinker and I don’t eat breakfast! So, I found in the first week of starting the Greens First Healthy Living Shake I thought for sure I would go through some withdrawals, that my body wouldn’t take to it right away, I’d be moody because of the chemistry change, but to make a long story short….my coffee habit has actually been cut by 70%! I’m only drinking one cup of coffee in the morning and one cup of coffee in the afternoon.  I was drinking almost 2 full POTS of coffee a day. I have lost 9 pounds since I’ve been taking the Greens First products because I find that I’m not hungry during those “munchy” times that you want to grab a quick snack or grab some chips.  If I find that my body needs or I’m craving something and I’m hungry, I take a Greens First Healthy Living Shake or Red Alert in the afternoon.
It is absolutely everything my body needs.  I don’t get hungry and I have the energy I need to make it through my 12 to 14 hour shifts.  I find that when I get off of work and I go home, I’m in much better mood with my husband…I’m not like rushing through the door, trying to get dinner on the table…I can actually talk to him and discuss what we want for dinner. And so I’m finding that all around it, it’s helping me in several ways: I have more energy, I’m actually more regular, I’ve lost weight…I’m to the point where I’m doing some strength training (so my weight in increasing but I’m losing inches).  The biggest measure is my coffee!  For years and years and years, I’ve been drinking coffee all day long. And didn’t understand that when I got off work, I felt like garbage!  And now I do understand….I’m absolutely a huge believe in the Greens First Healthy Living Shake.  Not only that….but it’s very easy to strike up a conversation with patients, especially in a chiropractic office.  We are basically healthy living facility here…we are a wellness office.  People want to feel good and get their bodies into shape, lose weight to do what they can to best fit themselves. These products are great for that. You really don’t have to advertise it...it is self explanatory. (In the office) on the Healthy Living Questionnaire, right there, they are going to tell you how they want to feel.  There’s nothing to hide, the questionnaire tells you exactly what we need to know and what to do.  I think these are wonderful products!

- Joya Fabrizio

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Dr. Arlan Fuhr of Activator Methods International
 
“About three years ago Dr. Don Hayes approached me about a new product called Greens First Healthy Living Shake. As I investigated this, I decided that I was going to use it for myself. I put myself and wife on it and we found it to be an excellent breakfast replacement, since both of us are busy and we go in the morning very quickly. We noticed that our weight was maintaining, and we noticed that our regularity increased. So, it was just something that was very good for ourselves personally.

Then we opened a new clinic last year and we thought we would test it here. We put it into the clinic and found the thing that we’d been looking for and that is simplicity! Greens First Healthy Living just simply has it all and has it all in one product. It has protein, which actually tastes good and it has greens which most people don’t eat enough of. It was simple and it was easy and I can recommend it. So, before you jump into complicated things for your clinic or complicated things for yourself, take a look at Greens First Healthy Living Kit.”
-Arlan Fuhr, D.C.,  President and Co-Founder of Activator Methods International, Ltd.,  

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Dr. Rob Jackson of Back Talk Systems
“I met Dr. Don Hayes at a chiropractic convention where he was offering the Greens First Healthy Living Shake and when I first looked at it, it made sense to me right away. After owning a nutrition company for over 5 years and realizing that offering hundreds of products wasn’t what most doctors wanted to do, I was looking for a simple way to offer one nutritional product that would cover most of my patients’ needs. Greens First Healthy Living Shakes do it all by simply replacing breakfast every day. Its been simple, its been easy, it only takes about 60 short seconds to get it communicated to patients and, because it uses a systematic approach, its all you’ll need to offer nutrition in your practice. Why not add extra income to your practice by offering nutrition in a way you’ve never offered it before. It will benefit both your patients and your practice!”
- Rob Jackson, D.C.,  President, Back Talk Systems & Practicing Chiropractor since 1983

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Dr. Craig Tuttle, Seattle, WA
“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to say a few things about the GreensFirst Healthy Living Shake and Dr. Donald Hayes the developer of the product.

I’ve had the opportunity to hear Dr. Hayes lecture a couple times at seminars across the country, in Tampa Florida and in San Francisco, California. He’s a fantastic speaker and he’s taught me a lot about nutrition.

I’ve taken years of nutritional courses.  I’ve studied under the best of the best in the nutritional world, instructors like Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil but the person that really put it all together for me was Dr. Hayes because he has a way communicating and breaking things down that really explains nutrition on a practical level.

Dr. Hayes has had the biggest effect on how my family and I choose to eat and what we do nutrition wise. Why do I recommend my patients use the GreensFirst Healthy Living Shake for breakfast?

When I compared the GreensFirst Shake to a typical fast-food breakfast sandwich, I found that the sandwich had five times more calories, ten times more carbs, fifteen times more fat, eighteen times more sodium, twenty-eight times more cholesterol and cost twice as much!