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Sunday, October 18, 2009

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

By Stephanie M Mitchell

If you have been researching diet and weight loss recently you have no doubt heard about the incredible acai berry and the acai berry diet plan. Claims are that you can lose a lot of weight just by consuming this wholesome little berry that tastes like blueberries dipped in dark chocolate and is grown only in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Reading the claims you might think that you have stumbled upon a magical solution.

Well the fact is that the acai berry, which is only found in the Brazilian rainforest, will not help you drop any more weight than the blueberry that is found in the state of Maine. There are no magic bullets or mystical potions when it comes to weight loss.

Then again, the acai berry can be a help to weight loss and an aid to our bodies for the prevention of diseases, the reduction of inflammation in our bodies and the slowdown of the aging procedure. It is not because this little berry is a magical fruit but rather because this berry is one of the healthiest and most nutritious 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.

Acai berries are also very high in amino acids and healthy fats. Almost 50% of the edible pulp of the berry is composed of fat and that fat is composed of the extremely healthy essential fatty acids Omega 3, Omega 6 and Omega 9. The fat found in these berries is also rich in monounsaturated oleic acid, which is similar to olive oil, another very healthy oil.

Surprisingly this teeny little powerhouse berry also contains 19 amino acids, which are the building blocks to protein. They also contain vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C and E along with potassium, magnesium, calcium, copper and zinc.

It has only been in the past few years that the acai berry has been offered outside of Brazil. This is because the acai berry is awfully perishable and it must be processed or consumed within twenty four hours of removal from the tree in order to uphold the nutritional integrity of the fruit. There are different processing methods but the most effective way to process the acai berry is with a freeze-drying method.

No, the acai berry is not a magical fruit that will help you lose weight but it is an extremely healthy food that can help your body in achieving optimal health and wellness and when you do that your body responds in a constructive manner to diet and exercise and the weight can then more effortlessly come off. - 17274

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