Special Diets

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We Have Information on Gluten-Free and Several Other Unique Diets Available For Your Family.

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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Aerobic Exercise Does the Brain Good

Previous research tells us that brain health and exercise go hand in hand, but not all types of exercise are necessarily created equal when it comes to boosting brain health: a study has found that adult lab animals that engaged in sustained running on a treadmill had higher numbers of new neurons in the brain’s hippocampus—a brain region which, among other things, is believed to be important for memory and spatial navigation. The study was published in the Journal of Physiology and included three types of rats: ordinary lab rats, rats that were bred to have a high response to aerobic exercise, and rats that were bred to have a low response to aerobic exercise. Researchers assigned rats of each type to perform the following activities: sustained running on a treadmill, high-intensity treadmill running in intervals, weight training (such as running up a ladder wearing weights), or to remain sedentary. After the six- to eight-week training period, researchers found that:

  • The high-response rats that engaged in sustained treadmill running had two to three times the amount of new hippocampal neurons compared with the sedentary rats.
  • Concentrations of new hippocampal neurons were higher in both the low-response and high-response rats that engaged in sustained treadmill running, compared to the rats that engaged in weight training.
  • Rats performing high-intensity interval treadmill running had only a slight increase in new hippocampal neurons compared with the sedentary rats, and this difference was not found to be statistically significant.

Of course, more research is needed to understand if exercise affects human brains in the same way. However, that doesn’t mean you should leave the running to the rats! Regular aerobic exercise provides a wealth of other known health benefits, such as boosting heart health and increasing the odds of healthy aging. Generally, adults need a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise, or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise, each week to begin enjoying the health benefits of physical activity.

Source: Journal of Physiology

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