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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To Lose Weight, Add Fiber

A study has found a form of “permissive” dieting—focusing on what you can eat, not on what you can’t—produced almost as much weight loss as more restricted dieting. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study divided 240 adults with metabolic syndrome into two groups. One group simply focused on consuming 30 grams of fiber per day, while the other group followed the more complex American Heart Association (AHA) diet, which emphasizes fiber, vegetables, legumes, lean proteins, and whole grains, and minimizes sugar, sodium, alcohol, and saturated fats, among other things. After participants had been on the two diets for 12 months, here’s what the researchers discovered:

Those following the high-fiber diet lost an average of about 4.5 lbs, while those on the AHA diet lost just slightly more—almost 6 lbs.
Twelve participants dropped out from the high-fiber group, whereas fifteen dropped out of the AHA group.
However, seven participants developed diabetes in the high-fiber group, but only one did in the AHA group.

This study indicates both the potential and limitations of permissive dieting. On the one hand, participants focusing on just a single dietary component—fiber—lost a notable amount of weight and may have found the diet easier to follow (based on the drop-out numbers). But on the other hand, the multi-component AHA diet may be more effective at helping prevent the development of diabetes, and did result in more overall weight loss.

Source: Annals of Internal Medicine

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