Pre-TENS Skin Prep - UPUP231N

Pre-TENS Skin Prep. Pre-TENS conductive skin preparation with Anti-Prespirant. Prep solution for use on the skin before applying electrotherapy pads. Will help with adhesion, dispersion, and conductivity.

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The Kennedy Cup - PIKCUP

Eliminate messy spills and increase confidence with this spill-proof drinking cup - will not leak even when turned completely upside-down. Perfect for all ages, this plastic cup has an easy-grip handle, sturdy screw-on lid and uses disposable straws. Holds 7 fl oz of hot or cold liquid and is dishwasher safe.

Features:

Spill-Proof.

Screw-On Lid.

Uses Standard Disposable Straws.

Perfect for All Ages.

Easy-Grip Handle.

Holds Hot or Cold Liquid.

Dishwasher Safe.

Capacity: 7 fl oz (207 ml).

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Big Bud Coco by Advanced Nutrients - 5070-12

Big Bud Coco by Advanced Nutrients 

The Worlds Best Bloom Booster, Now Optimized for Coco Coir 
Big Bud® Coco is designed specifically for use with coco coir to live up to the special flowering demands of coco for growers like you. The addition of Chelated Iron (Fe), Calcium (Ca) and Magnesium (Mg) alleviate the potential elemental problems commonly seen in this unique growing media because they powerfully deliver these critically essential secondary and micronutrients to your valuable plants at the most crucial time so you get the optimized yields you desire. Put Big Bud Coco to work for you today and start getting bigger more delicious buds in your coco grow room now.

Big Bud Coco is specially designed for use with coco coir growing media and continuous liquid-feed growing systems such as aeroponics, drip irrigation and emitters, NFT, flood and drain, and deep water culture.

Directions:Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 2 through 4 of the bloom phase.

Shake well before use.

Note: This product is manufactured by Advanced Nutrients and we guarantee its authenticity.
Beware of imitations!

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Basic Open Front Elevated Toilet Seat - 725790000

Product Description

As solid and comfortable as a regular toilet seat, just higher!

Open front allows for easy access for hygienic purposes

Durable plastic; won't chip or rust and will last for years

Elevates seat by 3" (7.62 cm)

Easy to install; no tools required

350 lb. (159 kg) capacity

For standard or elongated toilets

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Dual Blue-Release Walker - INV62405F

Product Description

Stable, lightweight, and easy to lift and maneuver.

Features dual Blue-Release mechanisms that provide 

both visual and audible "locked" cues, and anti-rattle 

"silencers" for quite operation.

Wide, deep frame constructed with side braces 

for strength and rigidity.

Compatible with most Invacare Walker Accessories, including new Court Side Glides (not to be 

used with Walker Tray or Walker Basket).

Adult and Junior sizes available.

5-year limited warranty.

Universal Specifications: 

• Dimensions: 

• Depth Folded: 4" 

• Width Inside Base Legs: 21" 

• Width Inside Hand Grips: 17" 

• Weight Capacity: 300 lbs.

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Yoga Can Help With Insomnia

Looking for a low-impact exercise routine with high returns for health and sleep? Try yoga.

The pleasures and benefits of yoga are widely understood: Yoga can improve physical strength and flexibility, improve breathing, reduce stress and enhance mental focus. What may be less well known are the positive effects that yoga can have on sleep.

A new study indicates that yoga can help improve sleep among people suffering from chronic insomnia. Researchers at Harvard Medical School investigated how a daily yoga practice might affect sleep for people with insomnia and found broad improvements to measurements of sleep quality and quantity.

In this study, researchers included people with different types of insomnia, evaluating people with both primary and secondary insomnia. Primary insomnia is sleeplessness that develops on its own, independent of any other health problem or sleep disorder. Secondary insomnia develops as a symptom or consequence of another medical condition. Many illnesses and health problems are associated with insomnia, including cancer, chronic pain conditions such as arthritis and fibromyalgia, and depression. Medications taken for chronic or acute health conditions can also trigger insomnia, as can the use (and abuse) of substances such as alcohol.

Researchers in this study provided their subjects with basic yoga training, then asked them to maintain a daily yoga practice for eight weeks. The study participants kept sleep diaries for two weeks before the yoga regimen began and for the duration of the eight-week study period. In the sleep diaries, they kept a record of the amount of time spent asleep, number of times they awakened during the night, and the duration of time spent sleeping between periods of waking, in addition to other details about nightly sleep amounts and sleep quality. Twenty people completed the eight-week evaluation, and researchers analyzed the information in their sleep diaries to evaluate the influence of yoga on the disrupted sleep of chronic insomnia. They found improvements to several aspects of sleep, including:

• Sleep efficiency
• Total sleep time
• Total wake time
• Sleep onset latency (the amount of time it takes to fall asleep) 
• Wake time after sleep onset

There isn't a great deal of research into the effects of yoga on sleep and its potential value as a treatment for sleep problems and disorders. But we have seen other scientific evidence in recent years of yoga's effectiveness in improving sleep:

• This study of 410 cancer survivors found that yoga was linked to improved sleep quality, reduced feelings of fatigue, reduced frequency of use of sleep medication, and an improved sense of quality of life among patients who practiced yoga twice a week for 75-minute sessions.

• This research looked at the effects of yoga among post-menopausal women with insomnia and found that yoga was linked to a reduction in symptoms and the severity of the sleep disorder. This study also found yoga linked to lower stress levels and an enhanced sense of quality of life.

• In this study of women with osteo-arthritis and sleep problems, an evening yoga practice was linked to significant improvements in sleep efficiency and a decrease in the frequency of individual nights of insomnia.

Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder among American adults, with 10-15 percent of the population suffering from chronic insomnia. As many as 40 percent of adults in the U.S. experience some type of insomnia every year. Older people, women, and those with other health problems are at higher risk for insomnia. Despite its prevalence, insomnia, like many other sleep disorders, remains significantly under-diagnosed, according to recent research. This study showed that while 1 percent of the population surveyed had a clinical diagnosis of insomnia, 37 percent of those surveyed showed symptoms of insomnia.

Insomnia may be common, but if left untreated its health consequences can be anything but benign. Chronic insomnia is associated with a number of serious medical conditions:

Insomnia is associated with high blood pressure and other cardiovascular problems. This large-scale study found that people with insomnia had significantly elevated risk of heart attack. Insomnia is also associated with inflammation in the body, which is itself a risk factor for heart problems and other serious illnesses.

Research indicates that lack of sleep can have negative effects on cognition, and the brain. This study linked insomnia with destruction of gray matter in the brain. Thisgroup of four studies, conducted independently of one another, found evidence that poor and fragmented sleep may contribute to impaired cognition as we age.

Insomnia has been found linked to both anxiety and depression. The relationshipbetween sleeplessness and these mental health disorders is still being understood, including whether one condition precipitates the other. But insomnia, depression and anxiety share a deep and difficult connection.

Lack of sleep, and disrupted sleep, is also associated with obesity. We've seen extensive research that shows under-sleeping is linked to weight gain and the diseasesassociated with obesity.

With so much at stake, finding effective treatment for insomnia is an important endeavor. Sometimes medication can be an appropriate choice, but any treatment is best to begin with basic lifestyle changes. Yoga and other regular forms of exercise can help to form the basis of a long-term, sustainable lifestyle that helps you sleep more, and better.

Sweet Dreams,
Michael J. Breus, PhD 
The Sleep Doctor™ 

Biofreeze Pain-Relieving Gel - 11-1032-1

Product Description

BIOFREEZE® with ILEX
BIOFREEZE CRYOTHERAPY PAIN RELIEF

BIOFREEZE® contains ILEX, an herbal extract from a 

South American holly shrub. ILEX is used around the 

world in various health & wellness formulations. 

BIOFREEZE® does not use waxes, oils, aloe or 

petroleum. The result is a fast-acting, deep penetrating, 

long lasting pain reliever.

BIOFREEZE® can effectively help relieve pain from:

Sore Muscles & Muscle Sprains

Back, Shoulder, Neck Pain

Arthritis

Painful Ankle, Knee, Hip & Elbow Joints

Muscular Strains

Use BIOFREEZE® to relieve pain prior to:

Ultrasound Treatments

Massage Therapy

Soft Tissue Trigger Point Therapy

Rehabilitation Exercises

Pre and Post Workout Stretch

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Drink Soda? Take 12,000 Steps

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

People who consume the sweetener fructose — which is most people nowadays — risk developing a variety of health problems. But the risk drops substantially if those people get up and move around, even if they don’t formally exercise, two new studies found.

Most of us have heard that ingesting fructose, usually in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, is unhealthy, which few experts would dispute. High-fructose corn syrup is used to sweeten many processed foods and nearly all soft drinks.

The problem with the sweetener is that, unlike sucrose, the formal name for common table sugar, fructose is metabolized primarily in the liver. There, much of the fructose is transformed into fatty acids, some of which remain in the liver, marbling that organ and contributing to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

The rest of the fatty acids migrate into the bloodstream, causing metabolic havoc. Past animal and human studies have linked the intake of even moderate amounts of fructose with dangerous gyrations in blood sugar levels, escalating insulin resistance, Type 2 diabetes, added fat around the middle, obesity, poor cholesterol profiles and other metabolic disruptions.

But Amy Bidwell, then a researcher at Syracuse University, noticed that few of these studies had examined interactions between physical activity and fructose. That was a critical omission, she thought, because movement and exercise change how the body utilizes fuels, including fructose.

Dr. Bidwell sought out healthy, college-aged men and women who would agree to drink soda in the pursuit of science. They were easy to find. She gathered 22.

The volunteers showed up at the university’s physiology lab for a series of baseline tests. The researchers assessed how their bodies responded to a fructose-rich meal, recording their blood sugar and insulin levels, and other measures of general and metabolic health, including cholesterol profiles and blood markers of bodily inflammation. The students also completed questionnaires about their normal diets and activity levels and subsequently wore an activity monitor for a week to gauge how much they generally moved.

Then half of the volunteers spent two weeks moving about half as much as they had before. The other 11 volunteers began moving around about twice as much as before, for a daily total of at least 12,000 steps a day, or about six miles.

After a rest period of a week, the groups switched, so that every volunteer had moved a lot and a little.

Throughout, they also consumed two fructose-rich servings of a lemon-lime soda, designed to provide 75 grams of fructose a day, which is about what an average American typically consumes. The sodas contained about 250 calories each, and the volunteers were asked to reduce their nonfructose calories by the same amount, to avoid weight gain.

After each two-week session, the volunteers returned to the lab for a repeat of the metabolic and health tests.

Their results diverged widely, depending on how much they’d moved. As one of two new studies based on the research, published in May in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, reports, after two weeks of fructose loading and relative inactivity, these young, healthy volunteers displayed a notable shift in their cholesterol and health profiles. There was a significant increase in their blood concentrations of dangerous very-low-density lipoproteins, and a soaring 116-percent increase in markers of bodily inflammation.

The second study, published this month in The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, focused on blood-sugar responses to fructose and activity, and found equally striking changes among the young people when they didn’t move much. Two weeks of extra fructose left them with clear signs of incipient insulin resistance, which is typically the first step toward Type 2 diabetes.

But in both studies, walking at least 12,000 steps a day effectively wiped out all of the disagreeable changes wrought by the extra fructose. When the young people moved more, their cholesterol and blood sugar levels remained normal, even though they were consuming plenty of fructose every day.

The lesson from these studies is not that we should blithely down huge amounts of fructose and assume that a long walk will undo all harmful effects, said Dr. Bidwell, who is now an assistant professor of exercise science at the State University of New York in Oswego. “I don’t want people to consider these results as a license to eat badly,” she added.
But the data suggests that “if you are going to regularly consume fructose,” she said, “be sure to get up and move around.”

The study did not examine how activity ameliorates some of the worst impacts of fructose, but it’s likely, Dr. Bidwell said, that the “additional muscular contractions” involved in standing and taking 12,000 steps a day produce a cascade of physiological effects that alter how the body uses fructose.

Interestingly, the young people in the study did not increase the lengths of their normal workouts to achieve the requisite step totals, and most did not formally exercise at all, Dr. Bidwell said. They parked their cars further away from stores; took stairs instead of elevators; strolled the campus; and generally “sat less, moved more,” she said. “That’s a formula for good health, in any case,” she added, “but it appears to be key,” if you’re determined to have that soda.

Electronic Stopwatch - 12-2100

Product Description

Start-stop, time out, split time and calendar mode. 

Registers 1/100th for first 30 seconds and 1 second thereafter

up to 24 hours. Programmable alarm.

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Athletic Tape Physio - ZZTKNAT01

Product Description

Athletic Tape Physio
Physio Athletic Tape is a modality treatment based on the body's own 

natural healing process. The major effects of Physio Athletic taping are 

correcting muscle function, improving circulation of blood and lymph, 

relieving pain, and repositioning the 

subluxation joints.

The adhesive is not only heat activated, but also will not leave any 

residue when removed. For excellent results, Physio Athletic Tape 

should be applied at least 30 minutes prior to exercise in order for 

the heat activated adhesive to adjust and bond with the skin 

temperature. The Physio Athletic Tape is frequently used for 

clinical applications such as patella femoral, shin splints, 

plantar fasciitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, 

rotator cuff, etc.

Provides support while sustaining full range of motion.

Used to tape over and around muscles.

Can be worn for several days per application. (3-4 days)

Helps correct muscle function, improves circulation, and relieves pain 

Water resistant.

Latex free.

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To stay healthy, eat an onion a day

By Chris Kilham

The famous chef Julia Child once remarked “I cannot imagine a world without onions.” The use of onions for food goes back at least 3,500 years, and the vegetable is one of the oldest of cultivated plants.

But the onion is more than a kitchen staple. It is a world-class superfood that has received very little fanfare, most likely because of its common position in cookery. And yet, compared with high-profile foods like pomegranates, red wine, and green tea, the onion offers superior benefits for both the prevention and treatment of many common diseases, including various kinds of cancer, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cataracts and more. In addition, onions can act as a powerful antibiotic and are helpful in reducing food-borne illnesses caused by microbial contamination.

Onions contain extraordinarily powerful compounds that possess many health benefits. Hundreds of scientific studies published on these naturally-occurring compounds show that they are highly protective to nerves and the cardiovascular system, and that they enhance immune function, fight the growth of many types of tumors, help to promote healthy hormone function, and many more.

Red wine may be the highly touted superstar of heart protection, but an appraisal of onion suggests that it exceeds the heart-protective properties of red wine by a generous margin. Could onion in fact be the real answer to the French Paradox – the fact that a comparatively low number of French people suffer from coronary heart disease despite diets that are rich in saturated fats? It makes sense. After all, almost no French recipe fails to include onion.  Onion lowers cholesterol, inhibits hardening of the arteries, enhances elasticity of blood vessels, and helps to maintain healthy blood pressure.  You could easily claim that the onion is the unsung cardiovascular-enhancing hero that has been right under our noses all along. We smell it, but don’t give it proper respect.

Equally impressive are the hundreds of scientific citations, which pertain to the anti-cancer properties of onion. While nobody is suggesting that onion is a cancer cure per se, it certainly is a valuable adjunct therapy, and it provides almost unequalled cancer risk-reducing properties.

Surprisingly, onion demonstrates significant blood sugar-modifying properties to be a real help in the fight against both type 2 diabetes and obesity. No, onion alone won’t keep you in fine shape, but it will help. In addition to limiting your intake of fats and sugars, eating onions can get your blood sugar-and your weight-on the right track.

So here is a simple, powerful health-enhancing recommendation: Eat an onion every day. One medium-sized onion equals approximately one cup of onion when chopped. And while raw onions contain a whopping load of protective compounds, even cooked onions still weigh in heavily on the protective side.

Chop onions into salads, cook them with vegetables, fish and meats, and find as many ways to eat them as possible.

Whatever has kept onion behind the curtains, while lesser fruits and vegetables are lauded, needs to change. The humble onion, with its tear-promoting pungency, is without question one of the healthiest things you can put in your body. Eat onions, and live better.

Averting Diabetes Before It Takes Hold By JANE E. BRODY

After a routine test of her blood sugar eight years ago, Randi Sue Baker, a seriously overweight 64-year-old, learned that Type 2 diabetes was bearing down.

With that test result, she joined the 79 million Americans over the age of 20 who have prediabetes. Up to 70 percent of them will go on to develop diabetes, but 90 percent don’t even know they are at risk. In fact, as many as 28 percent of adults with full-blown diabetes don’t know they have it, according to Edward W. Gregg, a senior epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ms. Baker, who lives in Brooklyn, considers herself lucky to have been forewarned. She realized that while she was still relatively healthy, she could make a concerted effort to stay that way.

For the last several years she has kept track of her caloric intake, the kinds and amounts of the carbohydrates she eats, and the overall healthfulness of her diet. She exercises five days a week, walking for 30 minutes and then swimming for an hour at the local Y. She is down 50 pounds from her top weight.

Ms. Baker also daily monitors her blood sugar, or glucose, level and takes a drug called metformin to help keep it within a normal range. Periodically, her doctor checks her blood level of hemoglobin A1C, another indicator of diabetes, to be sure it hasn’t risen.

Could Ms. Baker do more? If she were willing to undergo bariatric surgery, perhaps. The operation has risks but has been shown to “cure” diabetes in about a third of patients.

But what Ms. Baker already is doing to keep diabetes at bay is far more than most people who are likely to develop it do.

Diabetes is now an out-of-control epidemic responsible for a devastating toll in health, lives and medical care costs. In 2012 the condition accounted for $245 billion in health care expenses, about one in five health care dollars.

Among its serious complications are heart disease, stroke, kidney damage, nerve damage, eye disease (which can lead to blindness), foot damage (which can lead to amputations) and hearing loss.

Diabetes is the No. 1 cause of blindness, kidney failure and amputations, Dr. Elizabeth Seaquist, an endocrinologist and diabetes expert at the University of Minnesota, said in an interview. The condition even has been linked to dementia, includingAlzheimer’s disease.

The two primary causes of Type 2 diabetes — obesity and inactivity — have thus far resisted countless efforts to reverse or prevent them. National data from 2000 to 2011 show that about 40 percent of adults face a lifetime risk of developing diabetes, an increase of up to 20 percent since the late 1980s, Dr. Gregg and his colleagues recently reported.

If this tsunami continues to roll forward, experts predict that by 2050 the number of adults with diabetes will reach one in three.

The risk of developing diabetes rises with age. Currently about one in four Americans ages 65 and older has diabetes, and the number will grow as the population ages.

In theory, it is possible to avert the impending health crisis. Because complications typically take 20 years to become apparent, identifying people at risk of diabetes early and taking corrective action could delay onset of the disease and its devastating consequences, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

The American Diabetes Association has created a simple seven-question test to help people assess their risk; a paper copy can be found at www.diabetes.org. Important factors include a family history of the disease, prior gestational diabetes, being overweight or obese, physical inactivity and older age.

A dozen years ago in its journal, Diabetes Care, the associationnoted “growing evidence that at glucose levels above normal but below the threshold diagnostic for diabetes, there is a substantially increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death.”

A person with prediabetes has a blood glucose level higher than normal but not yet in the range of diabetes. While not everyone with the condition will progress to full-blown diabetes, over time, prediabetes can cause much the same underlying damage to body tissues and organs.

The trouble starts even before glucose levels begin rising, when the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin, the pancreatic hormone that regulates how much glucose circulates freely in blood.

Insulin’s main job is to move glucose from the blood into cells to be used for energy or stored for future needs. Insulin resistance, the portend of prediabetes, prompts the beta cells of the pancreas to produce more and more of this hormone to keep blood glucose levels normal.

Gradually, pancreatic cells wear out, setting the stage for rising blood glucose, prediabetes and diabetes.

The risk of developing diabetes is highest among African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans, but no ethnic or racial group is spared.

While excess weight is the leading risk factor, even people of normal weight can develop the disease if they carry too much fat in their abdomen. So-called central obesity may explain why the Japanese and others of Asian descent often develop diabetes at weights well below the range of obesity, Dr. Seaquist said.

She called prediabetes “a wake-up call” and emphasized that “modest weight loss can help. You don’t have to lose 100 pounds to prevent diabetes.” A loss of 7 percent to 10 percent of body weight can be effective.

Nor do you have to become an exercise fanatic. “Moderate activity, 30 minutes a day five or more days a week, is helpful and can even be broken up into 10-minute segments,” Dr. Seaquist said. “More is better, but it’s a place to start.”

She also offered advice for Americans in general: “Probably we all should consider ourselves at risk. We eat too much, more than we need, and that’s not healthy even if we don’t get diabetes.”

“We should be avoiding drinks that are high in calories,” she added. “They make it too hard to regulate food intake. Drinking water is safest all around — it’s natural and organic.”

WorkFit Nesting Stools - 9563

WorkFit Nesting Stools - 9563

Product Description

These sets of wooden stools are ideal for body mechanics and 

posture training when standing, to use at a desk or during 

seated mat activities. Nest for storage.

Includes following stool sizes:
8" square x 2"H,
10" square x 4"H and
12" square x 6"H.

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Nirvana Natural Bloom Enhancer by Advanced Nutrients - 3550-12

Nirvana Natural Bloom Enhancer by Advanced Nutrients - 3550-12

Product Description

Nirvana Natural Bloom Enhancer by Advanced Nutrients

This Is Your Best Choice For An All-Natural Flower Booster.

Your flowers get larger in size and higher in quality when you feed 

them Nirvana. Not only that, Nirvana helps plants like yours 

because during bloom phase they have a high carbohydrate turnover 

and need the potassium Nirvana provides for extra energy production. 

Use Nirvana with confidence, knowing we offer a 100% money back 

guarantee that you'll see more value from your harvests.

Nirvana is specially designed for use with all hydroponic growing media,
including coco coir, as well as continuous liquid-feed growing systems
such as aeroponics, drip irrigation and emitters, NFT, flood and drain,
and deep water culture.

Directions: Use 2 mL per Liter during weeks 3 through 6 of the
bloom phase.

Note: This product is manufactured by Advanced Nutrients and we
guarantee its authenticity.
Beware of imitations!

Gardening may help your health! To purchase click here