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Advanced Home Care
1225 Huffman Mill Road
Ste 104
Burlington, NC 27215
(336)538-9946

DJ Orthopedics, LLC
2985 Scott St
Vista, CA 92081
(800)863-8010

Edgepark Medical Supplies
1801 Summit Commerce Park
Twinsburg, OH 44087
(800)321-0591

MiniMed Distribution Corp.
18000 Devonshire St
Northridge, CA 91325-1219
(800)933-3322

Value Medical
5600 Roswell Rd
Ste 350
Atlanta, GA 30342
(800)861-4965

Buncombe County
Apria Healthcare, Inc
137 Glen Bridge Rd
Arden, NC 28704
(828)684-9981

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Though half of adults don’t have a will, everyone should. Die without one and your state will determine how your belongings get distributed. If you have kids, a judge could even decide who raises them. Unless you have lots of expensive belongings, though, you can write your will yourself; check out nolo.com for help. If you’d rather work with a lawyer, go to abanet.org and click on “lawyer locator.” Life insurance is a different story. If you don’t have children or other dependents, skip it. If you do have kids, get term insurance, the most basic, cheapest type. (Pass on cash value insurance—it comes with high commissions.) A 25-year-old female nonsmoker in perfect health could get a $250,000 20-year policy for $15 a month.

THE SUPERFOOD: WATERMELON
THE SCIENCE: A recent study showed that eating 2% cups of lycopene-rich watermelon significantly boosts the levels of the antioxidant in people’s blood, which may help protect against cervical, pancreatic, prostate and bladder cancers.
HOW DOABLE IS THIS? Very: One large deli cup a day does it. Don’t like watermelon? You can get the same 20 mg of lycopene from a daily cup of tomato juice.

THE SUPERFOOD: TEA
THE SCIENCE: New research shows that drinking 20 ounces of tea (about five to six cups) a day for only two weeks may boost your body’s levels of infection-fighting cells by up to 500 percent. Don’t love tea that much? You may still benefit from drinking less, says study lead author Jack Bukowski, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
HOW DOABLE IS THIS? In the age of grande and venti, it’s really not so hard. Replace your 3 P.M. iced latte with a supersize order of tea on ice.

SUPERFOOD: CRANBERRY JUICE
THE SCIENCE: Downing three 8-ounce glasses of cranberry juice a day may reduce your risk of heart disease by up to 40 percent (the polyphenols in cranberries are believed to elevate your “good” cholesterol), according to a study at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. Oh, and did we mention the wonders it does if you’re prone to urinary tract infections?
HOW DOABLE IS THIS? Simply replace your lunchtime soda with 24 ounces of cranberry juice (try “lite” cranberry if you’re worried about loading up on all those calories from juice).

THE SUPERFOOD: FISH
THE SCIENCE: A Harvard analysis of nearly 80,000 women published last year revealed that those who eat six to eight ounces offish (about the size of two decks of cards) two to four times per week cut their stroke risk almost in half. HOW DOABLE IS THIS? A serving of fish at dinner and a sushi lunch twice a week is all you need, but focus on tuna, mackerel, herring and salmon, which are rich in heart-helping omega-3 fatty acids. Don’t like fishy stuff? Eggland’s Best eggs are fortified with omega-3’s.

cold-water fish
Best: Wild salmon
Runners Up: Black cod (butterfish), sardines, anchovies, herring, mackerel, trout, tuna

Wild and farmed salmon have the same amount of omega 3, but wild salmon contains less saturated fat and has the ideal 2:1 ratio of omega 3 to omega 6.
Black cod has up to 58 percent more omega 3 than wild salmon.
Sardines contain protein and fatty acids, plus the edible bones add calcium.

fatty fruits
Best: Avocado, olives
Runner Up: Coconut
Avocadoes are high in fat - but it’s mostly monounsaturated fat, which may protect against heart disease and certain cancers. It also has omega 3 and is a good substitute for saturated fats like cream and butter.
Coconut contains a saturated fat which may not be as easily converted into stored fat by the body. It also has antiviral properties.

spices
Best: Cinnamon
Runners Up: Turmeric, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, fenugreek, bay leaf.
Cinnamon helps keep blood sugar levels stable as it contains a phytonutrient similar to those found in berries, cocoa and green tea.
Turmeric (kunyit) has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and may help reduce Alzheimer’s-related inflammation in brain tissue.

colourful fruits
Best: Apple, pear, grapefruit
Runners Up: Pomegranate, berries, peach, plum, cherry

Fruits are high in fibre which moderates their effect on blood sugar levels and helps us feel full. Each apple contains a range of anti-inflammatory phytonutrients and 5g of fibre (15 to 25 percent of your daily requirement).
Fruits are high in anti-inflammatory, antioxidant phytonutrients. They’re concentrated in the most colourful parts of the fruits like the peel.

If you have fibroids-benign tumors in the uterus that can cause pain, bleeding and fatigue-you may soon have a new solution: RU-486, also known as the abortion pill. Most fibroids feed on hormones, explains lead study author Kevin Fiscella MD: “Low-dose RU-486 blocks progesterone, causing fibroids to shrink by roughly 50% over six months.” The quality of life improvements for women who took RU-486 are on a par with uterine embolization, a surgical procedure in which doxtors block the arteries that supply the uterus with blood. Costs weren’t compared, but drugs are often cheaper and less debilitating than surgery. Typically, study results this promising would prompt doctors to start prescribing the drug off-label. But RU-486 is so controlversial the FDA won’t permit it to be used that way. That’s why Fiscella would like to conduct a larger trial, the next step toward FDA approval for this newly proposed use.

No, says Christopher Gardner,PhD, of the Stanford Prevention Research Center. “The idea that garlic lowers cholesterol has been around for decades,”he says. “Older research suggested that it did have an effect, but the studies were poorly conducted.

Newer studies seemed to say no, but they did not chemically analyze the supplements people were actually using.”

In search of the answer, Gardner recruited 192 people with slightly high cholesterol (130 to 190) and divided them into 4 groups: two got one of two common garlic supplements, one got the equivalent dose (about a clove) of crushed raw garlic, and one received a placebo.
At the end of the study, neither supplements nor raw garlic had the slightest effect on cholesterol. Bottom line: garlic might change your breath, but it won’t alter your blood lipids.

If you want to stay heart healthy, ask your doctor to do an electrocardiogram at your next physical. This quick, noninvasive test that measures the electrical activity of the heart is routinely used on people already known to have heart disease. But a new study of more than 14,000 postmenopausal women reports that EKGs can also predict future heart problems in those women with no history of heart trouble—exactly the ones who wouldn’t normally be offered the test.

For this study, researchers reviewed the medical records of women enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative to see whether abnormalities in their EKGs were associated with future heart problems. To the researchers’ surprise, even mild abnormalities-such as low blood flow to the heart or a premature heartbeat-were signs of future trouble.

If you’ve never had an EKG, it’s worth asking your doctor to run one, says study author Pablo Denes, MD, professor of medicine at Northwestern University. Even results that are. a tiny bit out of the norm should be a heads-up to do further testing.