Hello loyal readers… I hope I haven’t lost too many of you in my most-of-a-year absence. I have a good excuse, I promise.

I’m afraid you might not believe me though, but here goes anyway… My mom can concur if you ask her.

On Halloween night last year I was involved in a ‘Hit and Run’ auto accident. I was driving home from a Halloween party, and on a dangerous curve, not too far from my home, a drunk driver (I believe) came out of nowhere and cause a head-on collision in his larger SUV.

My car & I were CRUSHED. They never even found one of the tires!

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So here’s the dilemma: If it’s produce, then the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to call it a food. If you use it to heal you in some way, then the FDA wants to call it a drug… There is a very fine line in most peoples’ minds, but any line left between the two the Acai berry has just totally erased.

If one plant serves two different needs, such as a root sold as produce that can be used as a healing agent, (Ginseng and Green tea leaves also comes to mind) then we have to be really careful. Naturally we’d want it to be regulated so we don’t accidentally overdose on it… Although I have no idea if a ginseng or green tea overdose would be harmful or not.

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Of course you know that the Acai palm tree (açaí) is a 6-24 meter tall, fruiting palm that grows in Amazonia, mostly in the wetlands of Brazil.

It was named by the native people there as “içá-çai”, which roughly translated is: “the fruit that cries”.

It’s an unusual name, but it has a story. An Acai-obsessed Brazilian told this one to me.
(You’ll have to judge yourself how factual it is.)

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Welcome to the first post of the Acai Benefits blog.

If you are new to the incredible world of Acai (which is how English speakers type the Brazilian word “Açaí “) then allow us to be your guide to learning the most profoundly important thing you’ll ever learn in this lifetime.

If you are a long-time Acai consumer, then hold on tight, it’s just about to START getting intersting!

Sure, you probably thought you knew it all about Acai, about how it has the highest ORAC value of any fruit or vegetable, how it has Omega 3, 6, and 9 fatty acids that our bodies can’t produce, how some call it the “Viagra of the Amazon,” and even how Dr. Perricone went on Oprah and dubbed it the #1 Superfood…

-Well, that stuff is the very baseline, beginner-level triva!

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