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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Walking May Lengthen Your Life

Getting enough exercise can seem like a chore for those who prefer reading a book to running a lap. But findings from a large study suggest that, even if you can’t get the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise per week, going for walks for any length of time may still do you good. The study was published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine and included data from 184,185 people participating in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study (CPS)-II Nutrition Cohort. These participants, who were 50 to 74 years old at the beginning of the Nutrition Cohort portion of the study, completed a survey every two years that included questions about how often they exercised and which types of exercise they performed. During thirteen years of monitoring, the researchers noted the deaths of 24,688 men and 18,933 women and were able to use the information collected from surveys to draw the following connections:

Compared with walking less than the recommended amount, inactivity was associated with a 26% higher risk of death from any cause.
Compared with walking less than the recommended amount, walking one to two times the recommended amount was associated with a 20% lower risk of death from any cause.
The effect of walking on risk of death was similar to that of other forms of physical activity.
Walking was most strongly associated with reduced risk of death from respiratory disease, followed by cardiovascular disease and cancer.

These findings are a valuable reminder that any amount of physical activity is good for us—and the more, the better.

Source: American Journal of Preventative Medicine

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