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Nutrition Packs a Punch for Lowering High Blood Pressure
If you have high blood pressure, nutrition is one of the most important weapons in your arsenal to combat it. Below are the top ways nutrition packs a punch to lower your blood pressure: Slash Salt Canadians eat much more salt than required for health. Most of our salt comes from our intake of ready-to-eat processed/packed foods, eating out, canned foods, and condiments.
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Nutrition to Lower Your Blood Cholesterol
What is Cholesterol? Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is made by the liver or found in animal based foods. While some cholesterol is essential for health, sometimes the body makes too much, or we make lifestyle choices that increase our blood cholesterol levels which elevate our risk of heart disease or stroke.
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Nutrition for cancer prevention
The Canadian Cancer Society states that research shows up to 30-35% of all cancers can be prevented by eating well, being active and managing a healthy weight.
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Eating Smart for Your Heart
You can reduce the risk of stroke, heart attack and cardiovascular disease. Your best defense is leading a healthy lifestyle: don’t smoke, stay physically active, eat nutritious foods and maintain a healthy weight. May sound a little overwhelming, but here’s a few tips that break it down into manageable pieces.
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Vitamin D A Powerhouse in the Fight Against Cancer
Vitamin D May Reduce Cancer Risk by Up to 50% Vitamin D has been a hot topic for researchers for many years. Recent studies show a positive link between Vitamin D and cancer risk reduction.
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Less Salt - More Heart!
What does your salt intake have to do with the health of your heart? The Heart and Stroke Foundation’s research indicates that the average Canadian consumes at least three teaspoons of salt every day - three times as much as the Foundation recommends! Ideally the Heart and Stoke Foundation would like Canadians to consume no more than 2300mg of sodium per day....
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Nutrition
What makes Clover Leaf seafoods the ideal choice to meet your daily nutritional needs? It’s simple – they’re loaded with the nutrients you need, and low in the ones you don’t. Wondering what some of those might be? Here are a few of the basics: Proteins are the necessary building blocks for our muscle tissue.
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Are You Getting Enough Protein?
Powerful Protein! Protein is an essential necessary part of a healthy diet. The amount of protein your body needs changes depending on your height, weight, age and activity level. Protein is found abundantly in seafood, meat, poultry, legumes, nuts, eggs, dairy and soy foods.
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Product Nutrition
Clover Leaf Seafoods provides products that are healthy, nutritious and great tasting. We know you want to eat healthy and we are here to help! Have you heard of Omega 3's? We've got them! Trying to eat less fat? We can help! Need more protein? We have some of the best sources around!
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Allergy Awareness
Clover Leaf Seafoods is dedicated to providing you with not only information on Health Benefits of our products but with information you need to make "healthy lifestyle" decisions. We recognize you or someone you know may have allergies or sensitivities to certain foods. Clover Leaf wants you to make informed decisions and to feel safe about the products you purchase.
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Good Things Come In Omega-3's!
Good fats? Fat is typically associated with obesity, heart disease and other ailments. Efforts to trim waistlines or become more heart-healthy, have led many people to cut down on the amount of fat in their diets. Most people now know that trans fat is bad for you, but not all fats deserve a bad rap.
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Seafood Makes a Splash as Delicious & Nutritious!
Canada ’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating recommends Canadians eat two food guide servings of fish/seafood each week to take advantage of their many health benefits. However, it is estimated that Canadians only get 3-4 servings of seafood per month – less than half of what the Food Guide recommends. Are you getting enough? What’s So Healthy About Seafood?
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Mega Omega's!
Omega-3 fats found in foods such as fatty fish have a heap of benefits including heart health, cancer prevention, eye health, as well as infant brain and nervous system development. Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating recommends eating 2 fish/seafood meals per week. So Boost Your Omega-3 Fat Intake!
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Using Canada's Food Guide
Canada’s Food Guide is a tool designed to help you learn about the types and amounts of food that are ideal to boost your vitamin and mineral intake, enhance your health and reduce the risk of diseases such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
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Nutrition for Healthy Eyes
Nutrition plays a vital role in keeping your vision crystal clear and preventing macular degeneration - the leading cause of irreversible blindness in adults. While quitting smoking is the top lifestyle strategy to prevent macular degeneration, there are several nutrition strategies that are top research priorities being studied to help protect your eyes.
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Calcium & Vitamin D for Your Bones
Healthy eating is one of the top ways you can keep your bones strong throughout your lifespan. To help keep your bones strong your body needs a balanced diet with a variety of foods, especially foods rich in calcium and Vitamin D. Calcium is the most important mineral for your bones since it helps to build new bone mass when we are young, and preserve it when we get old.
