Hemorrhoids are one of the most annoying conditions I have experienced.  It’s all about getting more fiber in your diet.  But it seems to me as I talk to my friends that most people eat in such a way that eating something raw triggers terror in their minds that says “Oh, how terrible, how can you eat that bland food?”  Well, what is the alternative?  Instead of having a bowel movement every day we end up only having one a week, then we are straining and pushing trying to get it out.  The next thing we know, we have hemorrhoids.  It becomes a vicious cycle of no fiber, no bowel movements, then painful bowel movements, straining and pushing which only makes them worse. 

Then we need to invest in creams or even perhaps, if they become bad enough we may have to have surgery.  I know because I experienced hemorrhoids when I would have labor to deliver a baby.  I vowed then that when those horrible little blood-filled balls went away I would change the way I ate.  And that’s exactly what I did.  To this day I have never had hemorrhoids again.  I notice when I travel though I have a much harder time having a bowel movement than at home because I eat all the wrong food together and everything is cooked way too much.