Did You Know You Can Really Lose Weight With The Acai Berry Diet

By Anna P Hill

When one is over weight, he or she may be drawn to many diet programs which promise yhe world and someone who is researching diet plans and weight loss programs recently has no doubt heard about the amazing acai berry diet plan. The claims are that you can just consume this yummy little berry that is purported to taste like blueberries dipped in dark chocolate and the weight will fall off your body. You would think that the acai berry is a magical solution to weight loss.

Everybody would like to know what the truth really is? Well an acai berry from the Brazilian rainforest will not help you lose weight any more than a blueberry from the state of Maine. It is not a magical bullet. It is not a supernatural potion that immediately makes the pounds melt off.

But the acai berry can be an aid to weight loss and a benefit to our bodies for the prevention of diseases, the slowdown of the aging process and the reduction of swelling in our bodies. The reason why is not because this little berry is a magical fruit but rather because this berry is one of the healthiest foods ever found in nature.

The Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or the ORAC score is the way the antioxidant capacity is measured in foods. The acai berry has one of the highest ORAC scores ever found in a food. It actually has more than 10 times the amount of antioxidants as red grapes and even twice as much as blueberries, which are an additional powerful fruit.

The acai berry is also high in the essential fatty acids Omega 3, Omega 6 and Omega 9. Up to 50% of the edible pulp is comprised of these fatty acids and monounsaturated oleic acid, which is the same healthy fat that is found in olive oil.

It is also especially unusual that this berry contains the 19 amino acids that are the building blocks of protein. Not only that but the acai berry also contains vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C and E and the minerals potassium, magnesium, copper, calcium and zinc.

Acai berries are extremely perishable and it has only been in very recent times that it has been available outside of Brazil at all. The berries must be processed within 24 hours of removal from the tree in order to maintain the nutritional integrity of the fruit. Different processing methods yield different results and the best way to process these berries is with a freeze-drying method.

Using acai products is not a magical way to lose weight other than the fact is that this modest berry is a nutritional powerhouse and it can help you to realize optimal health and energy, which helps to make a strong, healthy body and a strong, healthy body will respond to diet and exercise in such a way that the excessive flab will come off. - 29951

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