Clarks Nutrition and Natural Foods Markets

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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Move Over Gatorade—Here Comes Beet Juice

The humble beet, a vegetable better known for topping salads than for generating national headlines, has seemingly done the impossible. According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, it has grabbed the attention of several major football programs across the country as a go-to nutrient source. Most notably, Auburn’s football team has attributed its sharp rise in the college rankings to pre-game swigs of beet juice concentrate. The University of Texas football team has also jumped onto the beet juice bandwagon, along with the NFL’s Houston Texans. So how much scientific evidence is there to back football’s new obsession with beet juice? Here’s what you need to know:

There is at least one study showing that beet juice provides performance boosts for intense, intermittent exercise (similar to what one might experience in some team sports).
There is some evidence that beet juice may increase endurance due to its nitrate content; it’s been shown to increase oxygen uptake during exercise, and has been shown to aid the performance of swimmers and cyclists.
Nevertheless, the research on beet juice is still in its early stages; questions still remain, for example, as to the overall value of nitrate supplementation for sports teams, and the precise exercise parameters that beet juice can positively impact the most.

In the meantime, sports enthusiasts who are eager to try beet juice can take it in several forms: as a fresh juice, as a powder mixed with water, and, in Europe, as a concentrate loaded into an oatmeal bar.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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