Stay tuned for a New Flavor!

Dr. Dave's Omega-3 Foods is proud to plant the seed of an upcoming new flavor. Since our company's inception in 2007, delicious flavors such as mint, orange, mocha, and ginger have made your daily omega-3s absolutely delicious, a treat to look forward to as you meet your health goals. In addition, special edition flavors such as chai tea, and cayenne-cinnamon were hot-selling (no pun intended), exciting variations on what your palates had come to expect from chocolate. What amazing flavor could possibly be coming next? Stay tuned!

Omega-3s and vision

Keen that omega-3s can be helpful for maintenance of healthy vision, we were recently contacted by a Seattle-based optometrist who expressed interest in using our chocolates as attention-assuring treats during a lunchtime talk about omega-3s and eyes. The data that surfaces on a search of PubMed seems to indicate slowing of macular degeneration, improvement of dry eyes, and some assistance with visual development in young children and infants. Thanks to our opthalmologic colleagues for weaving our omega-3 enhanced chocolate delights into their profession!

Your Summer of Omega-3s

A fun, and seasonal, combination of factors finds many people getting their omega-3s from salmon on the grill, while at the same time the extreme heat in most parts of the country makes for difficult Dr. Dave's Mega-O shipping. A customer contacted us recently and her 4 boxes of Dr. Dave's Mega-O Vegetarian mocha were a congealed mass of melted, then cooled, dark chocolate, algae oil, and other ingredients. Even with cooler packs, it is very difficult to ship our products to your door in the summer and have it arrive fresh. So, Dr. Dave's Omega-3 Foods LLC is planning to stop on-line orders August 1, resuming shipping this fall (approximately mid-September), following suit with many other chocolate companies that have done the same over the years. We encourage all of you lovers of Dr. Dave's Mega-O chocolates to branch out this summer, grill some salmon on the grill, experiment with salads full of plant-based omega-3s, and await the return of our omega-3 delights this fall.
One note: for those of you in Seattle, it is still possible to purchase our products in the Whole Body section of Whole Foods Market Roosevelt Square.

National Center for Creative Aging

The producer of the algae oil for Dr. Dave's Mega-O Vegetarian chocolates, Martek Biosciences, was involved with a recent event co-sponsored by the National Center for Creative Aging (www.creativeaging.org). The Beautiful Minds dinner served numerous foods enhanced with DHA, including our chocolates. See our facebook site for the attached menu of an incredible array of foods that can help provide brain-friendly DHA. The Center is an interesting clearinghouse of information about how creativity (music, arts, etc) can help to keep one's mind fresh and young; see their website for links and tips!

Dr Dave's Mega-O on Facebook

Yes, it's true. Dr. Dave's Mega-O arrives into the 21st century confidently and anything-but-covertly by engaging the Facebook medium for some of the same content you will find here, but with more photos and links. And, of course, you can see who else is a Dr Dave's Mega-O fan, perhaps learning their omega-3 truffle secrets and successes. Visit us! (www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Daves-Mega-O/94609779602?ref=ts)

Two Dr. Dave's Mega-O tricks

As a physician with integrative medicine training, I am keen to the importance of nutrition in all aspects of health and healing. However, I also like to have a bit of fun with what I eat, and switch it up sometimes. Perhaps that is why my normal yogurt/cereal breakfast morphed into a two-truffle, yerba maté combination one day last week. It was wonderful, kept me satiated for a couple of hours and I could just feel those omega-3s coursing through my veins. Do this every day? Probably not. But, on occasion, this might be part of my regimen.

Trick two. I just spoke with one of my chocolatiers who reminded me that the ganache (inside) in our chocolates is creamier and tastier if left to warm up to room temperature. I recommend that Dr. Dave's Mega-O chocolates be refrigerated until eaten in order to preserve the omega-3s on the inside, but letting them warm up slightly before eating them would be just fine and might make them even more delicious! Try it!

A Good Omega-3 Summary

Europe is ahead of the omega-3 curve, both in research and in staying up-to-date about the latest news. This summary article about the state of affairs in omega-3 research and marketing is well done, pointing out what we know and where some of the holes are in our understanding. Give it a read and let me know what you think:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8543172.stm