Monday, June 16, 2008

Breast Enlargement Products are Scams

By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Don’t waste your money on creams or pills that are supposed to enlarge your breasts. Eighty-five percent of a woman’s breast is fat, so the only way to make your breasts larger is to make you fatter, but most women don’t want to gain weight. The female hormone, estrogen, stimulates breast fat to grow, but it can only be stimulated so much. A woman whose body does not produce adequate amounts of estrogen will have her breasts enlarged by taking more estrogen, even in a cream; but estrogen cream will not grow larger breasts in normal women. Various devices that claim to enlarge your breasts with suction are nonsensical. They may cause swelling or water retention temporarily, but the effects will quickly disappear. Since breasts do not contain muscles, they cannot be enlarged by exercising, but you can do exercises to enlarge the pectoralis muscles underneath the breasts. This will push the breasts slightly forward and may make them appear larger. You can use a special weight machine called a pec dec, where you sit with your elbows bent in front of you and bring your elbows together while pressing against resistance. Start with one set of ten, gradually increase to three sets of ten, and when that becomes easy, increase the weight. Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.com Free weekly newsletter on fitness, health, and nutrition. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gabe_Mirkin,_M.D. http://EzineArticles.com/?Breast-Enlargement-Products-are-Scams&id=120951 no credit check apartments florida baton rouge bad credit bankruptcy car loan unsecured small business loan jacksonville car company loan online
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

So You’ve Retired With Plenty Of Money - Now What? Wealth Management Solutions In Retirement

By Keith Springer Okay, you are one of the lucky ones, making a killing in real estate and the stock market, or you have scrimped and saved so some day you hope to have a big enough nest egg to retire. Congratulations! Youve done it. Now what? Financial planning has historically focused on helping people achieve major financial goals such as saving and investing in order to retire comfortably, sending kids to college or buying that private island in the south pacific. But what about retirees, who, for the most part, have already achieved their goals and simply want to preserve their way of life? Life changes when you are living your goals rather than aspiring toward them. Suddenly, you have more to lose than to gain and you want to know how to keep what you have. Building and generating wealth is no longer the most important thing in this stage of life, but preservation of wealth is vital. With more Americans approaching this phase of life, the issue of how to manage money within retirement is increasingly becoming a priority. Consider these statistics: The largest growing population segment in our country is people 100 years or older. Within the next decade, most of the boomers will reach traditional retirement age. About 25% of the U.S. population–one in four people–will be retired. Many of us will spend more years in retirement than we did working. Yet when you search on the internet for retirement help, youll find page after page almost exclusively focused on making money and building wealth for retirement rather than managing wealth in retirement. No one seems to be educating retirees about managing their income and developing the right distribution strategies. Estate planning is well coveredprobably because its a goal to provide money to heirs. But helping retirees to manage the money they have today, while they are still in retirement, is conspicuously absent in most financial education efforts. From our experience in educating our clients for retirement, there are seven key areas where retirees need both financial education and financial planning in order to protect and preserve wealth: Money management. Managing your monthly expenses to ensure they are not forced to take large distributions from their retirement nest eggs to meet current obligations. Cleaning up the nest. Out of site, out of mind is far too often the mantra for retirees. However, a failure to organize can be disastrous later on. Pull together all those retirement accounts: IRAs (yes, some folks do forget about older IRAs they have), old 401ks from previous employers, annuities etc. review and consolidates. Roll-over that 401k to your IRA, which is almost always in your best interest. Make sure the right information, such as beneficiaries are on the accounts and they are set up directly. Once you or your spouse dies, its too late. Distribution planning. Planning distributions to ensure that you are not taking too much or too little from their retirement accounts, minimizing tax liability, and meeting Required Minimum Distribution amounts. Managing your money and continuing to accumulate assets. Now that retirees are living longer, their nest eggs must last longer. The old paradigm of becoming more conservative in retirement can sometimes backfire if retirees become too conservative and stop growing their assets. It is important to make sure that they are continuing to grow their nest egg to at least keep pace with their distribution needs and to outpace inflation and taxes. Protecting wealth. This is the area where retirees get the most attentionin the form of estate and insurance planning. However, they typically get their information from different sources and there is much inaccurate or misleading information as to how to set up wills, trusts, and charitable giving programs and what type of insurance policies are appropriate based on their personal circumstances. Also, insurance and estate planning tend to be viewed separately, when in reality both are tools to protect wealth and often to minimize taxes. Establishing your legacy. For high net worth folks, certain other challenges exist to ensure that your estate survives you: Pre-managing your estate tax liability so the kids wont have to sell off your assets such as the business or the farm to pay the bill; setting up Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRT); establishing a family limited partnership or LLC; other (vehicles that are not even invested yet) Managing the Ultimate Distribution. This is the most dangerous area and, not surprising the most confusing and overlooked. Careful consideration must be paid to not only saving and investing your money, but on the proper mechanics on how the assets need to be held in order to maximize your income distribution through your retirement. The tax laws are changing all the time, sometimes drastically as with the Pension Protection Act of 2006, so educate yourself early and often Your financial security can not be left to chance, especially in your golden years. Just because youve achieved financial security, does not mean your financial planning is over. You can spend a lifetime updating yourself on the subject, so you have two choices: be the expert or hire one. It does no good to spend your life saving and investing wisely only to give it all back to Uncle Sam! After all, its what you and your loved ones keep, that counts. Keith W. Springer is a Registered Investment Advisor and President of Capital Financial Advisory Services, providing Wealth Management and Mortgage Consulting Services. 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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Our First Family

By Jonita Johnson Genesis 1:26 Let us make man in our image. Man made in love, beauty, and intelligence, man made for intimate fellowship with God his Father. God made Adam then Eve The very 1st family, and it was GOOD. All things were created for man. He had dominion over all things living and growing. God had only given man one limitation. Adam apparently wasnt the greatest communicator, and Eve had so much going on with her gardening and all the animals, her listening skills apparently werent as tuned into him as they should have been. And neither apparently used the reasoning skills they were endowed with. So, one day because they didnt use their mutual skills, Eve fell for the okey-doke of one Satan the serpent (aka: tempter (tress), Lucifer, the wanna-be god, busybody, Loser, etc). Surely you know the kind. Anyway, Satan came at her with a challenge. The challenge to break the limit God had put on them to not eat of the tree of good and evil. Satan challenged their view of God to be right or wrong, he challenged the Word of God as a lie, and the ultimate challenge to them that they would not die; but instead they would be gods too knowing good and evil. Remember everything was good, except for Satan. He was all set to wreak havoc on the perfect world that God created. Adam and Eve had everything at their fingertips for the picking. What Satan showed Eve looked so good, smelled pretty, sounded so sensible, and seemed so innocent she went for his line. Adam followed Eve. They made a choice. Choices, as we now know, have rewards or consequences. Our 1st. family was about to learn their first lesson about independent living, not heeding the promises of God who loves them. Well Adam and Eve had their way, did the forbidden thing, and immediately their eyes were truly open. They knew that they were wrong. They were scared. For the first time Adam and Eve experienced fear. Their loving relationship with Father God was in question. They realized for the first time they were vulnerable. They stood naked facing each other and knew the shame of what they had done, and just how helpless and defenseless they really were. So they tried to hide themselves. Again mistakenly, they thought they could hide from God too. Weve played that game too hide and seek. As God did every evening He came to visit His kids. Adam, Adam where are you? He knew all the time, but dads who love dont just drop their kids because they are wrong. He sought them out, even though He knew what they did and where they were. Adam and Eve were in trouble. They wanted things their way out of Gods law, able to experiment. There is a price to pay when we live outside of God’s coverage. Father God could have destroyed them, right then, and started all over again. But instead He gave them a chance to come clean about what happened. Adam answered. I heard you, but I was afraid, cause I was naked so I hid myself. Adam, who told you that you were naked? Adam did you eat of the tree I commanded you not to eat of? Now the blame game starts. Adam answers, The woman you gave me she gave it to me. God asks Eve, What have you done? Eve is thinking, Im not taking the whole rap for this. She answers, The serpent deceived me, and I did eat. Then God said to the serpent, because you have caused this mess, you are cursed and there will be hostility between you and the woman, and her seed will bruise your head. To the woman He said He would greatly multiply her sorrow, and her husband would rule over her. To the man who had dominion over all things; God said to the man, because I commanded you not to eat of the fruit; the ground is cursed because of your doing; the land will be thorny and hard to till, hard to harvest. You will labor hard to eat of it until you die. From dust you came, to dust you will return. But God allowed them to live. In His love for them He made skins to cover their nakedness. But the 1st family had to leave the garden. They had to leave that safe, beautiful and secure place that their Father had created for them. God gave them what they thought they wanted - independence. Today we are still drawn away from our Father for the allurement of pretty, more knowledge, being gods in one way or another. We are still subject to our curiosity, to our need for independence, self-rule. God gives us what we want; but just as Adam and Eve did, we will always pay the cost to be the boss. Adam and Eve, the 1st family were the groundwork for our society today. The plan of God for family was and is today to be indivisible, united, strong, in belief and actions. We have the choice today to make our homes strong and safe. To teach values that an intruder/family-crasher cannot come in and easily deceive. We have an opportunity still to live in the presence of God and to live in His perfect will for our family. When families are united as God intended them to be, it is hard for outside forces to come between them. We can learn from the experiences of Adam and Eve. Gods plan was for them and us to grow and prosper in His love and provision for us. When we as families put God first, teaching our children the laws of God, and living in the purpose that God created each of us for We are strong. Families are the foundation that communities are built around. Take God our Father out of family we have chaos; limited values, diminishing respect for ourselves and others; kids killing parents, grown folks raping children, lies; deception used to benefit self. Without the value centered family communities do not turn into nations with purpose; and a nation without purpose is lost. Keep our families strong and follow Gods command: Deuteronomy 4:5-9. See I have taught you rules and laws as the Lord my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to possess. Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about these rules and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to Him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous rules and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today? Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Let us remain one nation, one community, one family as in the words in our Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America We are one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And as our money states let us so put into action by building our families believe In God We Trust. Jonita (Jay) lives in Bellingham, Washington, where she is a Group Life Counselor to teens addicted to chemicals. Shes a mom and grandma, who is active in church and community. Jays heart work is street ministry, writing, singing, and speaking about Gods Word to us today. She is the author of Meet Me At the Cross, One Womans Testimony, and is currently finishing a novel, Menes Story: Lord Take Me Back. Jay has written numerous Christian articles and poetry. Her recent article Fighting Fear and Depression Through Praise has been accepted by the magazine, Just Between Us, for women with a heart for ministry. Through her business, Jays GoodNews Crafts & Things, she makes jewelry, blankets, and three flavors of hot & spicy BBQ Sauce. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jonita_Johnson http://EzineArticles.com/?Our-First-Family&id=188715 hard money lenders in new jersey personal loan san diego private money loan no turn aways no fax payday loans
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