Students Of Success

“You know, it just doesn’t matter.”

This thought bounced into my head during one of my endless internet research expeditions, trying to find the “right” curriculum. After home schooling since 1996, I now realize what others have been saying all along: it just doesn’t matter.

Please don’t misunderstand me. Education matters a great deal, but all the fuss about this or that program, this or that method, this or that curriculum package, is just that: fuss, and not substance.

My kids never once finished a spelling book, and guess what? They spell just fine. They probably won’t win a national spelling bee, but they do all right. How did that happen? I don’t know. I do know that it wasn’t due to my expert teaching skills.

I’m not even sure how my son learned to read, but as he sat next to me this morning reading to me I thought, “How did this happen?” Because I honestly don’t remember teaching him to read as well as he does.

I guess it’s just a matter of providing the environment and a little motivation. Kids learn what they need to learn, when they need to learn it. It’s rather miraculous, when I think about it, when I look back and see that it just seemed to happen.

Oh, yea, I put in my share of sweat about the whole thing, but now I see what author Marva Collins means: “Anything works if the teacher works.” I always thought she was right, and now I know it.

So am I excited about homeschooling? Yes and no. Like the rest of life, it will be whatever it is: wonderful, boring, bla bla bla. But somehow my kids will get what they need, and that’s very satisfying to know.

Jennifer Thieme began homeschooling her three children in 1996. She is the administrator of a small, private ISP she established for her own family and several of her friends. She has been published in Practical Homeschooling and the Intuit ProConnection Newsletter. She operates a bookkeeping and tax service from her home. You may visit her business website at http://www.jenniferthieme.com.

On April 20 of this year, President Bush signed a bankruptcy reform law. When this law went into effect in October it made it much more difficult for Americans to use Chapter 7 bankruptcy to get a fresh start on their financial lives.

Under the old law, you could choose to file either a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. In a Chapter 7 proceeding, you are allowed to keep your exempt property, such as much of the equity in your home. Most of your other debts, such as money owed on credit cards, are discharged.

In comparison, a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is a reorganization bankruptcy. In this type of proceeding you agree to pay off your debts over a period of three to five years.

The result of the new law is that fewer people will be able to file for Chapter 7 Bankruptcies and will be forced to file for Chapter 13 Bankruptcies, instead.

Major Changes

Possibly the biggest change to bankruptcy law is that there will now be a qualifying test. Under this two-part test, you will first be required to apply a formula that exempts certain expenses such as food, rent, etc., to see if you can afford to pay 25 percent of your “non-priority unsecured debt” (credit cards, medical bills and the like). Second, your income will be compared to your state’s median income.

If your income is above your state’s median income, and if you can afford to pay 25 percent of your unsecured debt, you will not be allowed to file for a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.

You may be able to file for a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy if your income falls below your state’s median income but you can pay 25 percent of your unsecured debt. However, if the court believes you would be abusing the system by filing a Chapter 7, you can be required to file for a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, instead.

More differences

If you filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy under the old law, the court would determine what you can afford to pay based on what you and the court determines are reasonable and necessary living expenses.

Under the new law, the court is required to apply living standards that are derived by the Internal Revenue Service to determine what is reasonable to pay for rent, food, etc., and how much you should then have left over to pay your debts. The IRS regulations are more stringent and if you want to contest them, you will need to ask for a hearing in front of the bankruptcy judge. This can easily mean more time and expense.

Tougher exemptions

When you declared bankruptcy under the old law, your state might have allowed you to keep all or much of the equity you have in your home. However, the new law places tougher restrictions on this exemption. So before you file, be sure to discuss this with a knowledgeable bankruptcy attorney so that you will know exactly how much of your home’s equity you can expect to protect.

Credit counseling

Here’s another tough restriction. Under the new bankruptcy law, you must meet with a credit counselor in the six months before you apply for bankruptcy. However, from what I have read, many of the “certified” counselors are totally backed up and cannot handle any new cases.

You must also attend money management courses – at your expense – before your debts are discharged.

Before you do anything, make sure you talk to a good bankruptcy attorney.

Have you heard about HD radio technology? It makes AM sound as good as FM and FM sound almost like you were listening to a CD … and its free! To learn more about this amazing new technology, just go my Web site, http://www.hd-radio-home.com, to get all the buzz. Douglas Hanna is a retired marketing executive and the author of numerous articles on HD radio and family finances.

Your wheels need to be set up correctly in order to accommodate a bolt on hubcap. The lug nuts need to have outside thread for the hubcaps that screw down, or the lug nuts need to be flanged or contain a washer insert for the hubcaps that bolt on behind the lugs.

In addition, all of the bolt on hubcaps are made to fit a particular wheel rim. The depth that the hubcap sits need to be perfect in order for the locking mechanism to reach the lugs and every wheel is different. Also the holes in the hubcap need to be the same distance apart as the wheel in order to bolt up and this differs from model to model. In other words, there are no universal “bolt on” hubcaps on the market because every vehicle is different.

Some car companies have been bolting them on for years. Honda hubcaps have always bolted on as have Saturn’s. Others such as some GM and recently many Chevrolet hubcaps also bolt on. Certain Chrysler and dodge hubcaps are starting to bolt on after several years of poor design, most notably the mini vans.

Some such as Toyota hubcaps, Volkswagen hubcaps and most Ford hubcaps do not as of yet bolt on and these are the covers that most have problems with. So what can you do?

Most non lockable factory original hubcaps are designed with a wire retention system. The clips, or tabs that hold the retaining wire on the wheel covers are made of plastic and lost are quite fragile. Careless handling causes these tabs to break which takes the critical tension from the wire. This is when the losses happen.

Most of these hubcaps will remain on the wheel if handled properly, so careful handling is critical when removing and installing the hubcaps. If the hubcaps are already damaged and you wish to replace them with good quality Custom hubcaps. Make sure you select a style that is constructed with metal retaining tabs. The auto parts and bargain store brands are usually constructed with retaining tabs that are more fragile that the original ones that you are replacing, so make sure you choose a quality hubcap with a solid metal retaining system. Not unlike other purchases, you get what you pay for.

For all of your hubcap and wheel needs, visit Hubcap Heaven and Wheels.
at http://www.hubcaps-wheelcovers.com

Kurt is the VP and general manager of Hubcap Heaven and Wheels in Cleveland, Ohio

Love’s ointment works on bruised knees as well as broken dreams. Love has the power to heal all conditions of the body and mind. Love’s glow melts its seeming opponents into pure light. Where love is, all is well.

Love is at the center of every miraculous healing. It lifts the spirit of the bereaved. It penetrates the darkest hallway to reveal the next step. There is no loss, pain, or betrayal that love cannot illuminate. There is no sadness that love cannot soothe.

Always Enough
Sometimes it seems that love is the problem. It can appear that love caused the pain. People we love reject us, or they die, or they become so important to us that we encounter endless types of hurt. It seems that love is scarce and can be taken away at the whim of the beloved. This illusion of the scarcity of love comes closer to describing the cause of the pain. It is the sense of lack that hurts, not the love. The lack is an illusion.

There is always enough love. It is behind every great creation. Love is the canvas that holds up the paint. Love is the page that hosts the words. Love is the day you live into. It is every background, hidden behind every story, colored by every circumstance. Underneath every experience there is a field of love upon which that moment was built. There is always enough love. We simply must find it.

Finding Love
Finding love is different from finding your keys or your eyeglasses when they disappear. And yet, we tend to think of it in the same way. We think love is hiding somewhere. We left it with that person or in that old town or in that dear friend. We tend to think love is located in the person we love and when we lose that person we have lost love. Love is very different from that. Love lives in every moment in every particle of existence. Finding love is more like looking through the paint to the canvas, looking through the situation to the essence.

Try This
Here is an exercise for accessing love regardless of conditions. In order to reap the full benefit from this exercise, first take a moment to look around you at the condition of your life. Notice what kind of presence love occupies in your awareness. Take a neutral glance at your entire situation as if through a wide-angle lens. Without judging or defending, free from praise or blame, simply appreciate the contrasting landscape of your incarnation.

Once you have perused your lifescape, close your eyes and gently settle your awareness on your heart center right in the middle of your chest. Allow your breathing to become soft and relaxed. With each breath imagine your heart center infused with the gentle presence of love. Imagine this love soothing all hurts, filling all spaces of loss, and brightening all gloom. As the light of love becomes more established in you, realize that this love is always there. It is intrinsic to your nature. It is native to your being. You don’t have to put it there or develop it. It is the canvas of your life. Love is what you are made of.

Expand your awareness to include your whole body and an egg-shaped energy field all around you. Let love’s quiet presence ease into your awareness, permeating your entire field. With each gentle breath, allow yourself to become so soft and peaceful that the love that resides within you can shine through your situation and your thoughts, through your pains and your losses. Become so quiet that you can sense the slightest presence of this beautiful love as it glows through your physical body.

You may want to regularly spend some time revealing the love that you are in this type of meditative process. The benefits of this practice may surprise you. Love heals a scraped elbow as well as a broken heart. And it does something more. It attracts more love.

© 2003 Rebbie Straubing All Rights Reserved

Rebbie is a workshop leader, Abraham Coach, and writer.
Increase your awareness of Divine Love at the Affirmative
Contemplation website at http://www.AffirmativeContemplation.com.
You can receive Dr. Rebbie Straubing’s Free e-Course,
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Blue Cross/Blue Shield has been helping Americans receive affordable healthcare for decades. Without its existence, millions of hard-working American citizens would not receive the kind of care and treatment they deserve, especially after decades of paying taxes and helping to grow this great and prosperous nation.

Like many traditional socially-centered organizations, Blue Cross/Blue Shield has embraced the new technologies developed in recent years. In an effort to provide better service to Blue Cross/Blue Shield members, the organization has enhanced its website and now offers more services for people to use.

HealthIssues.com is one of the new online features now available at Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Surfers can access useful newsletters from the past year and the current one so that they may stay current with potential health issues and ways of dealing with them. The service can be initiated and terminated at any time. While active, members will receive a newsletter via e-mail every month with a host of useful information that is of vital importance to anyone concerned about their health. Health issues such as the avian flu epidemic sweeping Asia are just some of the hot topics covered in newsletters.

One of the other major improvements to the online website for Blue Cross/Blue Shield has to do with customer service. What was once formerly known as the “Contact Us” portion of the website has been changed to “Customer Service”. The enhancements to this section were made primarily due to overwhelming demand by Blue Cross/Blue Shield members.

One of the time-saving and beneficial advantages offered by the new service is to allow members to change the spelling of their name on official Blue Cross/Blue Shield documentation. What once was a time consuming task bogged down by red tape, this simple but essential service speeds up the correction of mistakes and ensures continuation of benefits without worry of interruption. The new online service also allows people to change date-of-birth and social security information as well.

The timely and useful enhancements to the Blue Cross/Blue Shield customer service section also allow members to access information about their individual enrollment plans to check for accuracy and updates to coverage. Also, at times when the service area for a local Plan is not available, members may access records without leaving the comfort of their own home.

Unfortunately, members cannot access their information at all times of the day or night. Access is only permitted at present on Monday thru Saturday, 7 a.m. – 9 p.m., EST. But, for persons that utilize the services during these hours, any changes made to their personal information will be posted and applied during the next business day. Plans are currently in the works to expand hours of access so that the website becomes even more convenient and useful to members.

Although not all transactions can be conducted online, the truth is that the new additions to the online services offered by Blue Cross/Blue Shield have made the entire process far more accessible and convenient for members. The newsletter provides members with critical healthcare information while the enhancements to customer service reduce waiting time and increase the ease of use for services.

For more information on Blue Cross Blue Shield, visit http://www.bluecrossblueshieldinfo.com.

The internet is full of juicy offers to make money fast.
Hundreds and thousands of people lose money fast daily because
they get trapped by scam offers. These web sites look very
attractive. They lure the people with the hope for solving their
financial problems. They display pictures of smiling people who
tell you that they have made their way. They provide you with
testimonials. Be careful about what you see: Webmasters buy
pictures of smiling, attractive people at internet photo
agencies. Testimonials can be false.

You need to do some research before you spend money for any of
these internet businesses. The following checklist might be
helpful for you:

Are There Any Exaggerations?

Does the website promise profits that sound too good to be true?
Do you believe, if a profit of 5, 10 or even more percent a day
is realistic and does sustain? Some websites offer a profit of
30% a day. Others promise you to convert $30 or so into $100,000
within an unbelievable short time. An ad even claims: Be a
millionaire in weeks! No wonder that these websites disappear
within a short time along with the people’s money - or they just
leave a lot of frustrated people behind.

Are the Contacts Reliable?

Is there at least a reliable contact at the website? Do they
answer to your requests? It is even better if there is a working
live support, a working telephone number (not just a recorded
voice, answering the phones).

Check at Alexa

You can check at the Alexa website. There you can type in the
URL of the website. Alexa shows you if there is a name, a
company, an address or a telephone number behind the website. If
it is a well known scam website, you already can see some bad
comments about the website at Alexa.

Check out the Environment

You can check out easily, what is going on around the website.
You just go to Google, type in the name of the website and click
search. You will detect, if there are bad news about the
website. The internet is an open world and you find complaints
about bad offers quite soon.

Be aware: If you type in the full URL, Google only displays you
the exact website. If you just type in the name or title of the
website, Google lists you many background information.

Check out Black Lists, Forums, Monitors

There are monitors and forums about the issue, in which the
website is active. Do you find any opinions about the website
there? Is the website black listed? Do not spend any dime, if a
website is on a black list. Are there any ratings about the
website? Does the website have a certificate, e.g. one by
NetIBA? The Internet Identity Bureau and Associates verifies the
identity behind websites. Merchants can get a certificate if
they comply with the NetIBA rules.

You need to be aware, that forums can be manipulated. Scam
websites can spread out favourable news about their website.
They can use false internet addresses and nicknames. Scam
websites have affiliates, who still go on promoting them, even
if more and more people start complaining about the website.

Trace the IP Address and Hosts

You can find out the IP address and server of the checked
website at network-tools.com. There you can type in the URL of
the website. Certain scammers use always the same server and IP
addresses. This hint could help to detect, if a well known
scammer starts a new website.

There Is no Warranty

Even, if you do your home work: there is no warranty that you do
not get trapped. A scam site might be new and a blank leaf to
the internet community. It is recommendable to observe matters
for a while before you spend money. The more the people become
alert and the more transparency is achieved - the less chance
new scammers get to do their fraudulent activities.

How do you create a dream? What are your dreams? Spend a few minutes, right now, writing them down. Of course, don’t edit your thoughts, just ask –what are my dreams? And start writing down the thoughts that come immediately to you. Make a list.

I’m a dreamer. I got it from my Dad. He always played the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. He’d say “you can’t win if you don’t play” and he’d dream. He dreamed of big sailboats, travel and I’m sure enough money to pay off our house and finish the master bedroom and all the other projects around. I play too and I know exactly what I would do if I won. My Dad hasn’t won the Publisher’s Clearinghouse. I’m not sure he still plays. I haven’t won either, not Publisher’s or the lottery. We’re both dreamers and we’ve both created some of those dreams in our lives without the millions promised in a sweepstakes or lottery.

Several years ago I looked at my life and wondered – how did you get here? It felt like it had all just happened and I had watched and participated but I hadn’t necessarily been in the driver’s seat. I took some time to figure out what type of career I wanted. At the time I was a mid-level manager in a non-profit organization serving people with disabilities. It was work I had been doing since I was 14 years old. I explored my desires and dreams through experiential adventure. First, I participated in a 72 day leadership course with Outward Bound. At the top of an 80 foot rappel I sat terrified behind dark sunglasses, wondering – how did you get yourself in this mess? And the reality was I had signed up for the course and each step was a challenge and accomplishment.

I did tie-in to the rappel line and backed off the side of the mountain and lowered myself the 80 feet to the ground. On rappel, the rappeller is in control of the descent. I had the ability to stop or slow down whenever I needed to. But I had to finish the rappel to be on solid ground again. I learned many things on that trip and lessons that I continue to figure out and use throughout my life. Outward Bound has a strong values based philosophy. Despite the challenges my group found in living these values I began incorporating them into my life: self-reliance and interdependence, physical fitness, compassion, service to others and craftsmanship.

After finishing the Outward Bound course I returned to my non-profit job and continued to explore my destination. My work in residential programs with people with disabilities had been filled with creating life plans and program plans for the people we served. We looked at some key things:

1. What is your dream?

2. What are the resources you have available to accomplish/achieve your dream?

3. What resources do we need to create to support you in achieving your dream?

4. What are the steps you need to take in order to move closer to your goal?

5. When will you know you have succeeded? What will it look like, feel like, and sound like?

Through this process we created all sorts of new and innovative living arrangements, jobs, community supported goals for people.

I did much the same thing. I found a long lost passion for cycling and joined a bike club and started riding. I love the feel of travel, wandering and exploring. I decided to follow through on a dream I had and created a cross country bike tour. I began taking steps to make it happen.

1st: I joined a cycling club and began riding a lot

2nd: I told people I was going to bike across country

3rd: I signed up for a tour leader training course

4th: I found an organization that sponsored these types of trips and obtained local and national sponsorship support for the trip.

5th: I created an advisory committee to help me with the plan and oversee route development and safety.

6th: I worked on the day by day route, accommodations and service sites, making contacts and setting up our itinerary.

In creating the Peace Tour I had to keep working each step over and over to create the overall plan. And it ended up with a great tour route. We had one person sign up for the whole tour and two people sign up for shorter sections of the tour. I always felt like that was a failure, but the reality is that the sponsoring organization took on the marketing of the tour. My goal was to bike across country and I did. So from a perspective of goals, I accomplished my goal. I biked across the country and loved it. I love the feel of my bike with packs on it and the feel of the open road. A bicycle with everything we needed, right on it, is a true recreational vehicle.

I learned new things about myself on that tour. I saw the country from a close-up perspective. I met hundreds of Americans and found that the majority of people are good with no negative encounters with people, only generosity and kindness.

Can we create the life we want? Can we take a vision or a dream and make it happen? Definitely. It is what is done in large corporations all the time. It is the clarity of vision and of purpose that provides a clear path or direction for the people within an organization. As individuals, we too, have vision and can develop a plan for making it happen. Setting a step by step plan has a better chance at success than does just having a passing or recurring day dream. For me, cycling cross country happened because I made it happen. I took it step by step. Ask yourself, what are the pieces that make this dream happen? What do I need to put in place to create it?

Take it one step at a time. First, write your dream or vision down. Write in great detail, as if it is happening right now or picture yourself in the vision. How does it feel, how does it smell? What are the sounds you hear? What do you see? What are you doing? How has it changed your life? Write the details including all the feelings that being in your vision creates.

Step 2: What are the resources that you already have that can help make the vision a reality? Money, materials, supplies, time, property, frequent flier miles, friends, colleagues, and/or acquaintances? List them all.

Step 3: What resources or supports do you need to achieve your vision/dream/goal? List everything that could help you in succeeding. This is not the place to write in winning the lottery. Each item needs to be realistic. Things that seem out of reach are okay because these are often reachable, with determination and a plan.

Step 4: What steps do you need to take to achieve your vision/dream/goal? What are the steps? Break the vision down into the steps that need to happen. These often have a chronological order, but also may have steps that have to keep happening over and over. The steps can become the smaller goals you work towards so make them small and easy to achieve.

Step 5: When will you know you have succeeded? What will it look like, feel like, and sound like? This might be similar to your vision that you developed earlier but it is an important step as it helps you to measure your success. You can develop a measure for each step of the way and then check it off when you complete it. Or buy stars and give yourself a star for success for each step along the way. I have used stars for years with staff working with me. People think it sounds silly, but we all got a charge from them when we saw them on our paper in elementary school. As adults, we go right back to those feelings when we get one as adults. It makes the process a game. The check marks or stars become reinforcing for you as you succeed. They build enthusiasm and energy for success and they keep you moving forward.

I recommend once you are clear on your plan that you also tell people about it. Share your excitement and enthusiasm with others. They can be your resources and perhaps resources you didn’t realize existed. Talking about your plan helps to move it forward. When I started telling members of the bike club I rode with that I was cycling across the country they started helping me train. They made sure I was out riding and riding far. They helped me ride hard and fast and prepare for the Rocky Mountains. Share the plan.

The last step is to do it and then to celebrate your accomplishments!

Being a dreamer is great when you take hold of the dream and move it into your life.

Dream, create, live.

Written by Donna Price, M.S., M.S. President and Founder of Compass Rose Consulting, LLC. Donna is a personal and business coach providing extraordinary services to individuals and businesses. Donna has 18 years of management experience, has completed 72 day wilderness leadership course, cycled across the country and created new paths and directions for her life based on her vision for a healthy and balanced life. Donna can be contacted via website: http://www.compassroseconsulting.com or at 866-948-ROSE. She is speaker and trainer as well as providing coaching and facilitation services. Donna offers the innovative and successful Best Year Yet program and the leading edge Genuine Contact program.

© Copyright 2005 Donna Price

The biggest and most important issue that a webmaster will have to face is getting his/her visitors. This is the million dollar question and it escapes the grasp of most web designers. In this web site design article you will get some expert tips on how to get visitors to your site, and it will save you hours of feeling like nobody wants to come to your site. We will discuss some of the key techniques that the best webmasters use.

Building your site is the easy part, getting people to visit your site is the hard part. Most people who have a site think that they can submit their site to Google, and visitors will just come flooding their doors. This is not true and it won’t work. The first thing to do when you build your site is to make sure your meta tags are in working order and that they target what your site is all about. Make sure that you have some of your keywords in your title, description, and the body of your page. Search engines love this, but make sure you don’t use to many keywords and a description that is longer than this article. Meta tag optimization is a whole nother topic, and we won’t go into detail here. The next thing to do is to manually submit yourself to the top search engines. Using free search engine submitters don’t always work and most of them are just a scam. If you manually submit, the search engines will like it better. Run a google search on search engines, and you will get a whole list of engines to submit to. After you fix up your Meta Tags, think about the content of your site. Search engines love having good quality content and they rank you higher for it. If your site is just a gateway page with hundreds of links, not very many people will come to your site, and the search engines will hate you. You want to offer something useful to your visitors, something that helps them. Think about publishing some articles, or anything else that your visitors will benefit from. People also love getting things for free. A lot of people will come to your site if you offer a quality service for free. It is just common nature for people to love free things. Dont you? You have now covered the first step in getting visitors, and that is to get your feet wet in the world of search engines. We will now move on to the next step, link exchanges.

Link exchanging is not only a great way to get visitors, but the search engines will rank you better if you have a good amount of links. Having links on other sites is a flag to tell search engines that you have a quality site. It shows that other people like your site, and not just you. This is where I am going to show you my favorite technique for getting link exchanges. First you must go to LinkPopularity.com. Here you will see a little bar at the bottom of the page. You are supposed to enter your own url to check how many people have linked to you, but what I do is enter the url of my competitors. Isn’t that great. You now have a whole list of contacts that your competitors have linked to. All you have to do is contact the owners of the sites about a link exchange, and you will most likely get your first exchange. I have learned this great trick from LinkPopularity and they have a whole article about checking your competitors links. Now that you know where to get your contacts, we must now discuss how to go about contacting them. Before you even think of contacting them, add their url to your links pages. This shows the webmaster that you are serious about a link exchange, and they are impressed by it. Somewhere in your email you can even mention that you have already added their link to your page. Your email about a link exchange could look something like this.

Hello, my name is (your name) and I would like to do a link exchange with your web site. My web site offers (what do you offer) and I thought that we would be good link partners. I have already taken the liberty to add your website to my links page, which is (your link page url).

Thank you for you time,

(your name)

Be sure to be friendly in your email and explain why you would be good link partners. If the webmaster accepts, you will get your very own link on another persons website. You now have a link on someones site, and your search engine rank will increase. After you have done this to as many people as you possibly can, do it some more. You can never have to many links. It makes your site well known to the world, and the search engines will crawl your site more frequently because they find your site by skipping from links on peoples sites.

I hope that you have learned something from this article and that you can maybe get a couple of new visitors because of it. Just remember, it takes patience to get visitors. I mean, you are one in millions of web pages, and that just means you have to work ten times harder than all of your competition to get visitors. In time, if you follow everything here, there is no reason for you to not have thousands of visitors in the next couple of months.

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Using digestive enzymes when you have hemorrhoids is a good idea. Digestive enzymes help reduce inflammation, reduce fibrin, and clean the blood of foreign particles. These enzymes activities strengthen your immune system and give it more power to work on your hemorrhoids.

Bromelain

Bromelain is a digestive enzyme that is found in pineapple. It’s capable of reducing inflammation and swelling and for this reason has been used to treat hemorrhoids.

Bromelain also activates a chemical that promotes the breakdown of fibrin. Fibrin is a chemical that repairs open wounds, internal wounds and weak tissue by creating fibrin deposits. If you are over 35, fibrin is not balanced with your body’s enzymes. This results in excess fibrin deposits at inflamed locations, eventually causing more sickness and disease. Disease.

To balance and control excess fibrin activity, you need to take digestive or systemic enzymes. Systemic enzymes are enzymes that work throughout the body to attack blood impurities and dissolve fibrin.

As a supplement take 500-750 mg a day. You can also add fresh pineapple to your diet since it is high in fiber and other nutrients.

Digestive and Systemic Enzymes

Digestive enzymes are used to help you digest your food and improve your assimilation. Systemic enzymes are found deep into our body. They are in your tissues, organs, and cells where they help in all types of chemical reactions that your body is involved in.

Both types of these enzymes are available in capsules so you can easily supplement your diet. Digestive enzymes help to reduce the stress you get in the rectum when your food is not properly digested. Undigested food reaching the colon eventually leads to constipation.

Take a good digestive enzyme that you can get at health food store. Take 2 capsules with each meal.

Systemic enzymes help reduce swelling, inflammation, improve circulation, and speed the healing of tissue. One important fact about systemic enzymes is they eliminate fibrin, which is at center of most inflammatory conditions and illness.

Take systemic enzymes between meals. This allows them reach the small intestine and get absorbed into the blood stream where they can do their work.

Some systemic enzymes are enteric enzymes, which means they are coated so they will not dissolve in the stomach. This allows them to move into the small intestine where they will be absorbed into your blood stream.

The brand Vitalzyme contains serrapeptase, a systemic enzyme that is mix with other nutrients and enzymes. Just put Vitalzyme or serrapeptase into the goggle engine. This will bring in a flood of sites for you to chose a good systemic enzyme.

Copyright © 2005 Rudy Silva

About Rudy: Rudy Silva has a Physics degree from the University of San Jose California and is a Natural Nutritionist. He writes a newsletter called “Natural-Remedies-ThatWork.com” and he has written an ebook called “How to Relieve Your Constipation with 77 Natural Remedies.” You can get more information on this ebook and more hemorrhoid remedies at this site http://www.hemorrhoid-remedies.for–you.info.