We’re pleased to announce another all-natural, certified-sustainable Shrimp delight!

Wild Oregon Pink Shrimp are renowned for their sweet, delicate flavor and firm texture.

Their small size and pre-cleaned, pre-cooked preparation makes them ideal for fast meals like salads, omelets, or pasta.

We think you'll be pleased by their fine flavor, extra ease, all-natural status, and sustainable provenance.

People love our sweet, tangy Organic Dried Tart Cherries!

They make delicious snacks, and add colorful flavorful spark to sauces, salads or cereal … and offer bountiful health benefits as well.

For a limited time, we’ll include a 10 oz. bag of our Organic Dried Tart Cherries – a regular $16 value – with a qualifying purchase.

Dont wait ... this offer ends at midnight PDT on Saturday August 16, 2008.
 

Click here for full rules.

Silver Salmon - also known as Coho - is the unsung culinary star of Alaska's wild harvest. 

Our Silver Salmon is wonderfully moist, despite having less fat and fewer calories than Sockeye or King.

(Although Silver is 30% leaner than Sockeye, it offers just as many omega-3s ... about 2,000 mg per 6 oz portion.)

Unlike our Sockeye and King, Vital Choice Silver Salmon portions come with the skin on one side, which helps keep them moist on the grill.

Certified Kosher by EarthK.

If you haven't tried our Wild Red Sockeye Salmon you're in for a treat, because it tastes much fresher than standard supermarket brands.

The rich, red color of the meat and oil is unlike any you're likely to have had before.

Our minimal processing methods ensure that you'll get the maximum amount of nutrients naturally abundant in Sockeye Salmon.

These include omega-3s, vitamin D, and astaxanthin: the super-potent carotene-class antioxidant that gives the oil brimming in every can of Wild Red its bright orange-red color. (The liquid in standard canned Salmon is pallid and watery by comparison.)
 

Choose Skinless-Boneless Wild Red, or Traditional Style with skin and soft edible bones for extra flavor and ample calcium.

Both kinds are available with salt (less than is added to most brands) or without added salt ... and several varieties come in EZ-Open pull-tab tops.

“You are providing a wonderful health-giving service to the planet with your business. And it is a pleasure to bring this information to my audience. It is also a pleasure to snap open these little cans of salmon and have an instant healthy meal!”

-- Christiane Northrup, M.D.

The encouraging results of two small clinical trials were released this past week.

Both trials – one from the Pacific Northwest, and one in Taiwan – tested the effects of omega-3-rich fish oil on people suffering from moderate Alzheimer's disease and/or milder cognitive impairments.

The Taiwanese paper made some headlines, but the U.S. findings, from a longer-lasting clinical trial, seem even more significant. 

But the U.S. team's paper – presented last April at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting – seems to have been overlooked by the media.

Taken together, the positive findings from the U.S. and Taiwan should prompt scientists to conduct larger trials.

Let's take a look at both studies, starting with the trial performed in part by researchers from our home state of Washington.

Northwest team finds omega-3s and key antioxidant aid Alzheimer's patients 

Researchers based in Seattle and Portland conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial in volunteers aged 55 or older (Shinto L et al. 2008).

Their goal was to test the effects of two promising nutrients in Alzheimer's patients: omega-3s and lipoic acid.
 

They divided 39 participants into three groups, each of which took their assigned capsule daily for one year:

People love our Organic Dried Tart Cherries!

They make delicious snacks, and add colorful flavorful spark to sauces, salads or cereal.

And these sweet, tangy treats offer bountiful health benefits as well. (See “Tart Cherries top the list”, below.)

For a limited time, we’ll include a 10 oz. bag of our Organic Dried Tart Cherries – a regular $16 value – with a qualifying purchase.

• No Added Sulfur

• Certified Kosher OU
• Certified Organic by Oregon Tilth, Inc.  

To learn more about our Organic Dried Cherries, click here.
 

Don’t wait too long ... this tasty offer ends Saturday, August 16, 2008.

How to get your free Organic Dried Tart Cherries

It’s easy to snag our tangy, certified-organic cherries:

1. Fill your Cart to $170 or more.
2. Enter the Gift Code CHERRY08 where indicated under your Cart.
3. Click Checkout. (The Cherries will not appear if you click "Update Quantities".)

Then, proceed through the Checkout process as usual … the free Cherries will appear in your Cart after you submit your shipping address. 

Like all Vital Choice orders that total $99 or more, you will also receive Free Shipping.

Enjoy your tasty, healthful gift treats!

Cherries top healthful-foods lists

Berries and other colorful fruits have been linked to bountiful health benefits, which is why the USDA recommends ...

New clinical findings show that lifestyle changes – plus omega-3s and a natural statin alternative – can lower cholesterol levels more than a common statin drug, while bringing other cardiovascular benefits in the bargain.

These results show that statin drugs are not the only effective way to lower cholesterol levels.

And this fact takes on more significance when you consider that as many as four out of 10 of people prescribed a statin drug stop taking it within one year (Simons LA et al. 1998; Avorn J et al. 1996).

We received the message below from marine biologist Alexandra Morton last Friday, and want to share it with our readers.

As you may recall, Ms. Morton is the co-author of recent, landmark research papers that documented a precipitous, Salmon-farm-driven decline of wild Pink Salmon in British Columbia, western Canada.

The work that Alexandra Morton and her colleagues from Canadian universities show that young Pink Salmon are being killed by unnaturally large swarms of sea lice generated by Salmon farms sited near the mouths of migratory rivers.

Pink Salmon are by far the most numerous wild Salmon species in Alaska and British Columbia.

By tracing chemical isotopes in trees and other organic matter, researchers are documenting the previously unknown, highly critical role that Pink and other wild Salmon play as providers of nutrients to the plants and animals of the Pacific Northwest’s riverine and coastal eco-systems.

For the background on British Columbia’s Pink Salmon crisis, see “Canada’s Wild Salmon Need Americans' Help”,  which includes links to past articles on this subject.

As we reported, Alexandra Morton conceived a plan to ferry young Pink Salmon past the Salmon farms, until such time as the BC government forces the offending Salmon fames to relocate, as has been in the past in Norway and British Columbia.

She still needs our support, and we thought you ought to see her latest update on the court fight to save wild Pink Salmon in British Columbia.

Alexandra Morton’s Salmon update

Hello All,

This is an update on the Adopt-a-fry campaign to bring reason to the fish farming industry on the BC coast.

We have been given four days in BC Supreme Court starting on the 29th of September in Vancouver.

I am deeply thankful to all of you for making this possible with your donations. The judge could make a decision right away at the end of the four days, but it is more likely that the decision could take months.  We might want to appeal the decision, or the other side may want to file an appeal so this could go on for a long time, longer than our fish have to survive.

Some 80% of the young Salmon leaving the Broughton Archipelago are infested with sea lice again and there were very few of them this year.

As well, young Sockeye on the Fraser River migration route were heavily infected with sea lice near fish farms. In 2005, a group of us started the study around Campbell River, the Sockeye near fish farms were infested that year too and that was the generation that never returned to spawn last fall. The infection rate around Campbell River is much higher this year.

Folks this is becoming critical as ever more significant Salmon stocks are being impacted.  There are solutions but ...