Kitsilano's Neighbourhood LOW CARB STORE

In the fall of 2003, Nature Living Health, a low carb store, was opened on Vancouver's West Side. It was the first of its kind in the city. Specializing in low carb food, sports nutrition and vitamins, Nature Living Health serves the community by supplying high-quality products that are great for diabetics as well as dieters or the health conscious. Our store's line-up also features a vast array of nutritional supplements, allowing customers to fine-tune their eating habits without missing out on vitamins and minerals.

Nature Living Health carries a full complement of Low Carb Baker products, including four flavours of muffins - carrot cake, blueberry, chocolate chip and bran. Sold in bags of six, each medium-sized muffin contains 4.7 grams of carbohydrate. At last count, the store is selling about 100 dozen a week, with sales of these and other baked products increasing rapidly.

The brown bread loaves (17 slices) contain 4.3 grams of carbs per slice, essentially a quarter the carbs of regular bread. Hamburger and hot dog buns have five grams apiece, while small fresh torillas have three grams and are flavour-enhanced with garlic and herb, green onion, or whole wheat for added savoury pleasure.

Nature Living Health also carries cookies, pancake mix and pizza dough mix (somewhat hard to roll out, but with a good taste and texture according to sources). There are also Carbo-lite beverages, dried pastas, cereals, condiments, and plenty of dietic and low-carb candies and chocolate bars. We are very excited about our latest product - fresh pasta, which was recently added to our already impressive inventory. The product mix is changing constantly, to accomodate customers' needs and keep up with the new and improved offerings in the low-carb sector.

Nature Living Health is located at 2688 Arbutus St.; Tel: 604-736-3003.