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Gluten Free

What does following a gluten-free diet mean? That you're embarking on an easy diet with a wide range of health-promoting effects. Instead of dwelling on what you’re giving up, consider that you’re going to enjoy a whole new world of delicious food options to meet your special dietary needs. You’ll be eating seasonally, choosing more fresh fruits and vegetables, focusing on meats, seafood, poultry, legumes, lentils, corn, and rice, and discovering fascinating ancient grains such as quinoa, amaranth, and millet. You’ll be able to eat potatoes, eggs, most cheeses, even chocolate (!)—and enjoy them without guilt because you’ll be taking good care of your body. In fact, you’ll probably end up eating—and feeling—better than ever!

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We carry a large variety of gluten free items, the brands listed below represent just some of the offerings we carry

Raw Foods

“Raw” is all the rage these days, but what does it mean to eat raw? And is it possible to get enough protein and other nutrients while following a raw diet?

Raw foods are those that have not been heated above 108°F to 118°F

Raw, defined

Most raw foodists eat only plant-based (vegan) foods, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes, and seaweed. Raw foods are those that have not been heated above 108°F to 118°F, depending on who you talk to. The logic behind this is that many of the nutrients in foods are extremely sensitive to heat. This is especially true of the water-soluble vitamins, like the B-vitamins, folate, and vitamin C. As Katie McDonald, a raw food chef and certified Holistic Health Coach in Rhode Island puts it, “The more you do to a food, the less it does for you.”

Raw food advocates also look to the enzyme content of raw foods, saying that cooking destroys delicate enzymes that could otherwise go toward improving the digestion of the foods you’re eating.

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In addition to our always fresh produce, we carry many more raw foods throughout our stores. Look for these brands and our Raw Foods section for more.

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Add Some Fun to Your Run with Fartleks

Chances are that by now you’ve probably heard of interval training, which combines short periods of high-intensity exercise with periods of rest. Now, the Washington Post reports on the resurgence of an old training system from the 1970s called fartleks, which is similar to intervals and is becoming popular again with some distance runners. Fartlek is Swedish for “speed play,” and involves continually varying running pace and terrain in order to make your training routine more enjoyable. The difference between a fartlek workout and an interval workout is that there is no rest period—you’re running the whole time. For example, you could run a mile, then do several sets of fartleks—run hard for one minute, run easy for one minute—and then top it off with another mile. There’s also a lot of room for play with fartleks: if you find that a minute of hard running is too intense on a particular day, decrease it to 30 seconds; but if you’re feeling spry, increase the time or intensity of your fartlek sets. If you’d like to get in on the fun, here are some tips to get you started:

Go at your own pace. Stay within a range of intensity that you can achieve. Push yourself hard and then go easy, and be sure to check in with yourself to make sure it still feels good.
Choose your fartlek challenge. Fartleks don’t have to be any set distance or time period. You can do them between two telephone poles or on a track, and you can choose a time limit that works for you.
Don’t do daily fartleks. You may have so much fun that you’ll want to do fartlek workouts every day. Even if you’re itching to do another one, give yourself a day to rest after a strenuous workout.

Source: Washington Post

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