Reprinted in part from a previous Blog post (revised), plus an update on 7/6/25...

Dear Cherished Customers,

Some of you are newer customers, and others have been with us for decades, but I want to thank all of you for your support of our small business and to update you on what’s going on with HealthForce…

First, a little background…

HealthForce began as just an idea of mine several decades ago when I was very young, still in school, had just learned about health and nutrition, and wanted to help others achieve the absolute best of health and happiness possible. I worked on my first mail order catalog of health products after school and on weekends. Then, a couple years later, I met a special guy who became my boyfriend (and eventually my husband, Jameth), and we joined forces in growing this small company. We also became naturopaths and health researchers, applying our research to the products we formulated.

Back then the internet was nothing like it is today, and we were broke students who couldn't afford a computer, so we used the library computer at first, and we built our company the old fashioned way, from the ground up, with nothing but nonstop hard work and sacrifice, including lots of sleep-deprivation and all-nighters, working seven days a week, including weekends and holidays, for years on end. We had to take side jobs just to pay the bills, and for a time we even lived in our car so that we could pour all of our earnings into the business. We never sold out to investors, which made things very difficult at times, but it was important to us to maintain the integrity of the products, and to put our customers first. Today that has become more important than ever as more and more companies in our industry are being bought out by Big Pharma and the junk food industry.

At first, a handful of our products were packaged in plastic bottles, but as soon as we were able to bottle those products in amber glass, we switched over right away, as amber glass is superior in many ways (much better preservation of products, protection from UV light rays, non-toxic, and more). To this day, despite increasing costs, all of our products are packaged in amber glass, other than the huge containers of Warrior Food, as we’ve never been able to obtain amber glass bottles in that size. However, we’ve always used the best and healthiest huge containers we can find; and we are actively in the process of switching that size over to more ideal packaging as well. More and more companies are doing the opposite nowadays, switching over to plastic in order to save money; but we feel that would be going backward, and we have made a commitment to never do that.

We originally sold our products direct to consumers through our mail order catalog and our popular Uncooking with Jameth and Kim classes. Later, we built our first website and began selling our products online. Eventually, through hard work and determination, we managed to get them onto health food store shelves, making weekly deliveries out of the trunk of our beat up old car. Our very first employee was my mom, who worked for us for free. (My beloved mom actually still works for HealthForce to this day, working well beyond retirement age, fueled by HealthForce products!) One of our first products was a human-grade green superfood blend for animals (beginning with our own rescues), called Green Mush. We created a similar product for humans, which became the first green superfood supplement of its kind on health food store shelves. It was originally called The Ultimate Nutritional Supplement, later changed to Ultra Green, and ultimately came to be known as Vitamineral Green.

Eventually I stepped down from HealthForce, as I had many other pursuits on my plate; and Jameth took charge as HealthForce’s benevolent leader, passionate spokesperson, and gifted formulator for many, many years. Later, he stepped down also and turned the management over to others so that he could focus on new projects of his own, until his totally unexpected and very untimely passing. I plan to write a book to tell his whole story, which I hope will help and inspire all who read it. He was a true hero who helped many others, often at his own expense, and he definitely left his mark on this world. Losing him was the most difficult thing I’ve ever experienced, and it broke me in ways I could never have imagined. After he passed, HealthForce landed back on my plate, amidst an avalanche of other responsibilities, and I’ve done my very best to keep it going under unimaginable circumstances because I believe in the products and I’ve seen how they have changed many lives. Your testimonials are a HUGE part of what has kept me going.

Fast forward to today…

As many of you know by now, HealthForce was hit very hard in recent years by numerous factors that have affected many small businesses during times of uncertainty. I've done my very best over the past many months to keep you all informed of the situation, the difficult changes we had to implement in an effort to save HealthForce, and the fact that we ultimately concluded that it would have to be shut down. This is one of the most difficult situations that small business owners often face. I had held it together for as long as I could; but ultimately, as the one keeping it all afloat, I was physically, emotionally, and financially exhausted, and I just couldn't do it anymore. So I began the process of shutting HealthForce down, and we notified you, our beloved customers, of the sad news.

I could never have imagined the reaction we'd get to that news. We were absolutely inundated with responses by concerned customers wondering what they would do without our products. I received many testimonials and pleas... people who counted on our products... people whose elderly parents counted on our products... people whose beloved pets counted on our products... and I just couldn't bring myself to let everyone down. So this ignited in me the determination and the strength to dig deep and make one final, all-in, last ditch effort to keep HealthForce alive.

Meanwhile, an inundation of large orders began pouring in as people stocked up in response to the shut-down, and this ended up providing much-needed funds to help get us out of the red and to take the measures necessary to turn things around and save HealthForce in literally the eleventh hour. This has enabled us to implement much-needed changes to keep the business going in a much more sustainable way for the long haul so that this will never happen again. As a result, I want to assure you, we're here for you, and with the changes we've now implemented, HealthForce is indeed here to stay!

Thanks again, from the bottom of my heart, for supporting our small business, and for helping to make this happen! We couldn't have done it without you!

With my very deepest gratitude, now and always,

Kim Sheridan, Founder

Revised 7/6/25