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Shop Vital Choice ...
Pick from 3 Easy Ways!
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Certified for Sport™ Salmon Oil + Vitamin D
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Omega-3s and Vitamin D support the special physical and mental demands placed on serious amateur and professional athletes.
So that they can benefit from both nutrients worry-free, we sought the prized Certified for Sport™ seal of approval from NSF, which assures athletes that our NEW Certified for Sport™ Sockeye Salmon Oil + Vitamin D3 is free of contaminants and all substances banned by sports federations worldwide.
• Fish-gelatin softgels
• Potency & purity certified by NSF
• 1000 IU of Vitamin D3 per softgel
• 200mg total Omega-3s per softgel
• No artificial additives, colors, or preservatives
• No dairy, starch, wheat, yeast, sugar, or soy
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Visit us at Dr. Weil's Nutrition Conference
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We invite folks attending Dr. Andrew Weil's 2010 Nutrition & Health Conference to come visit our booth.
We’ll be serving up samples, making select products available, and chatting with friends old and new!
Attending practitioners can sign up to receive free Vital Choice Catalogs, Omega-3 Brochures, and displays.
We hope to see you there!
WHEN: May 10 - 12
WHERE: Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, GA
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World's Finest Fish Oil
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Our "whole food" Omega-3 Salmon Oil supplements contain only unrefined oil from wild Alaska Sockeye Salmon: a fish whose renowned purity is reflected in the pristine contents of our naturally colorful capsules.
Unlike standard fish oils, our naturally pure Sockeye Salmon Oil does not need to be chemically refined: a process that can damage omega-3s. Instead, our oil's purity and potency are certified by NSF.
As a result, our whole, unrefined Sockeye Salmon Oil retains all of the omega-3s (EPA & DHA), vitamin D, phospholipids, and fatty acids natural to whole Sockeye Salmon.
The rich orange hue of our Salmon Oil comes from its natural complement of astaxanthin: the super-potent antioxidant pigment that gives Sockeye their distinctive color and protects our Salmon Oil's abundant omega-3s from oxidation.
In addition, ours was the first Salmon Oil supplement certified as sustainably sourced by the Marine Stewardship Council. 
We encapsulate our Salmon Oil in pure fish gelatin, and offer special varieties for special needs:
• Smaller Softgels (500 mg)
• Liquid Salmon Oil for children and folks who may have trouble swallowing our 1,000 mg softgels
• Lemon-Flavored Salmon Oil for folks who experience bounce-back.
Vital Choice Salmon Oil (top left) vs. two standard fish oils
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Point Your Patients & Clients to Great Food
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Many health practitioners and wellness providers display Vital Choice catalogs to help their patients and clients find great seafood and supplements.
Each catalog includes a special offer that people will thank you for providing!
And we can now offer clinics our new brochure on Omega-3s in Seafood & Health. Reviewed by doctors and experts, it clarifies a critical but often-confusing subject.
For information or to request extra catalogs and brochures, please send an email to arnie@vitalchoice.com.
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Vital Choice & Vital Green
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Environmental
Stewardship Program
Vital Green™ is our pioneering environmental program that does 4 things:
1) Fights global warming by offsetting the impacts of shipping.
2) Enables recycling of foam shipping cubes via our innovative FREE program.
3) Supports seafood sustainability and promote a green partnership with our customers.
4) Offers an online, clickable e-Catalog to save trees and energy.
To learn more, and get instructions for recycling foam shipping cubes from Vital Choice, visit our Vital Green™ page.
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Wild Salmon Beats Farmed for Vitamin D (Again)
Canadian report affirms prior signs that wild salmon has much more vitamin D than farmed salmon does … and is leaner, but about equal in omega-3s
by Craig Weatherby
Most Americans are deficient in vitamin D – or close to it – and need to get much more from pills or foods.
As it happens, fatty fish are the richest food sources by far, with tuna, sardines, mackerel, and salmon leading the pack.
But not all salmon are good sources of vitamin D … with farmed salmon lagging far behind their wild cousins.
Three years ago, we reported that Boston University tests found much more vitamin D in wild salmon than in farmed salmon (Lu Z 2007).
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Fish fit the vitamin D bill; Sockeye salmon stand out
In addition to getting vitamin D from supplements, certain fish rank among the very few substantial food sources of vitamin D, far outranking milk and other D-fortified foods.
Among fish, wild Sockeye Salmon may be the richest source of all, with a single 3.5 ounce serving surpassing the US RDA of 400 IU by about 70 percent:
Vitamin D per 3.5 ounce serving*
Sockeye Salmon 687 IU
Albacore Tuna 544 IU
Silver Salmon 430 IU
King Salmon 236 IU
Sardines 222 IU
Sablefish 169 IU
Halibut 162 IU
*For our full test results, click here.
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Critically, the BU researchers found that a sample of wild Pacific salmon had four times more vitamin D (988 IU), compared with the farmed Atlantic salmon (245 IU).
The amount found in wild salmon was almost five times the US RDA (200 IU) from birth through age 51 ... which most researchers want raised to at least 1000 IUs per day.
Now, the results of tests commissioned by Canada’s CTV News affirm those findings ... and then some.
Canadian TV station finds wild salmon far higher in vitamin D
When CTV sent samples of both to be tested, the results showed that wild Pacific salmon had eight times more vitamin D than farmed Atlantic salmon.
(Most farmed salmon is of the Atlantic species, which was nearly exterminated by damming of rivers in America, and by lice and other pressures from poorly sited and designed Norwegian and Scottish ocean-pen salmon farms.)
Specifically, the samples of wild Pacific salmon had more than 500 IU of vitamin D per 3.5 oz serving, while farmed salmon had only 60 IU.
And, the farmed salmon had three times as much fat as the wild salmon (13 percent fat, versus only 2.5 percent).
Because fat has more than twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates, this means that farmed salmon also has more calories than wild salmon.
Their higher fat content explains why most tests find that most farmed salmon have slightly more omega 3 fatty acids than most (not all) wild salmon … though the difference is minor.
Unfortunately, the CTV report failed to mention that, compared with wild salmon, farmed salmon is much higher in omega-6 fats, which compete with omega-3s in our bodies for absorption into cell membranes, and tend to promote inflammation.
Source
- CTV News. Farmed vs. wild salmon – which is better? March 5, 2010. Accessed at http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100219/bc_ctv_investigates_food_fish_100219/201
- Holick MF. High prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy and implications for health. Mayo Clin Proc. 2006 Mar;81(3):353-73. Review.
- Hollis BW. Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels indicative of vitamin D sufficiency: implications for establishing a new effective dietary intake recommendation for vitamin D. J Nutr. 2005 Feb;135(2):317-22. Review. Whiting SJ, Green TJ, Calvo MS. Vitamin D intakes in North America and Asia-Pacific countries are not sufficient to prevent vitamin D insufficiency. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2007 Jan 9; [Epub ahead of print]
- Vieth R, Cole DE, Hawker GA, Trang HM, Rubin LA. Wintertime vitamin D insufficiency is common in young Canadian women, and their vitamin D intake does not prevent it. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2001 Dec;55(12):1091-7.
- Lu Z, Chen TC, Zhang A, Persons KS, Kohn N, Berkowitz R, Martinello S, Holick MF. An evaluation of the vitamin D(3) content in fish: Is the vitamin D content adequate to satisfy the dietary requirement for vitamin D? J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2007 Jan 29; [Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.12.010
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