Archive for April, 2009

Apr
26

Suffering From Cancer Depression Is Common

Posted by lee under Uncategorized

Clinical studies have shown that anxiety and depression after cancer is a common occurrence. Cancer patients are often distressed by the diagnosis and find it difficult to make the necessary long term adjustments to their lives. This is cancer depression.

Cancer treatment can be a long and tough ordeal, and keeping up moral can be difficult. Moreover, cancer patients suffer from fears of the unknown, of facing the pain and how the people around them will react. They may not have much energy left to continue their usual life.

Cancer depression can make the suffering worse as the loop of fear and anxiety is reinforced every visit to the doctor. The patient may stop otherwise healthy habits, which can then leave them feeling even worse.

It is important to help cancer sufferers with their fear and anxiety, for these reasons.

Natural treatments can help anxiety and depression after cancer, since they do not create habits or have the usual unpleasant side effects normally associated with anti-anxiety drugs.

Patients in recovery will also benefit in that they will not have to deal with withdrawal symptoms in an already difficult situation.

Apr
06

The Acai Berry and Your Budget

Posted by lee under Acai Berry

Adding the acai berry to your diet is a great way of getting more fibre, antioxidants, vitamins, and even fatty acids. The berry and products made from it also have no negative effects, so it’s perfectly safe for everyone. However, all of these benefits come at a price. The acai berry only grows in the Amazon, and it loses a lot of its benefits about a day after being picked.

To counter this, the berries can be frozen, dried, turned into juice, or made into acai berry extract. However, as you may imagine, frozen or dried berries are not available everywhere. Generally, only health food stores carry them, and they’re usually a little pricy.

Acai berry juice is more widely available and is cheaper, but you have to drink more of it to get the same benefits, so the cost ends up about the same. Products that contain acai berry extract are also expensive, costing upwards of $100 for a one month supply of pills. Plus, you’re often automatically enrolled in the program, so you get a new month’s supply if you don’t cancel. If you want to add the acai to your diet, then, you need to carefully look at your budget first.