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	<title>The Acai Benefits Blog</title>
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		<title>Acai Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Cruz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  After giving it many months of thought, I figured out what everyone really wants to hear: Which Acai Benefits are real, and which are still speculation.
The truth is, many acai benefits are still speculation and will be so for a long time, simply because the USDA has difficulty getting their hands on Acai Berry [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> After giving it many months of thought, I figured out what everyone really wants to hear: <strong>Which Acai Benefits are real, and which are still speculation</strong>.</p>
<p>The truth is, many acai benefits are still speculation and will be so for a long time, simply because the USDA has difficulty getting their hands on Acai Berry Pulp in perfect condition&#8230; It can&#8217;t be grown in North America, or anywhere but the Amazon, for that matter, so naturally testing on it must be done down there.</p>
<p>And from the USDA&#8217;s point of view, why should they? The quality of the Acai that is actually making it to the US will be much less potent then the pure samples they test down there. Their accurate findings would be useless to Americans!</p>
<p>Since the only <a href="http://acairesearch.org/Official_Acai_Papers.html" title="Official Acai Papers" target="_blank">scientific papers</a> done on this subject were by Dr. Schauss&#8217;s lab, and he has linked himself to the MonaVie product line, many people who are not fans of MonaVie choose to disregard his findings as hype for that product.</p>
<p>However, there were some acai research papers from his lab published BEFORE MonaVie existed! MonaVie searched Dr. Schauss out and recruited him in the developement of their product, so naturally he couldn&#8217;t have been publishing biased papers before that point.</p>
<p>So from those papers, the following FACTS about Acai&#8217;s Benefits can be concluded:</p>
<p>1. <strong>Acai&#8217;s high Protein</strong> levels, which are actually higher than the protein in an Egg, make it an ideal food source for protein in your diet. Usually protein comes with high levels of cholesterol, so simply replacing your morning Egg or Ham with equal weights of fresh Acai pulp is a very effective way to lower your cholesterol and still get enough protein.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Acai&#8217;s Antioxidant spectrum </strong>includes more different Types of Antioxidents than any other known food source. Let&#8217;s face it, no single antioxident will allow you to live forever. The hope is now that a regular intake of ALL antioxident types will give your body the best chance to slow or even stop the ageing process. If there is any food likely to prevent serious illness like Cancer, the Acai&#8217;s vast antioxidant spectrum is like a big, bright, purple beacon.</p>
<p>3. Specifically, <strong>Acai&#8217;s Anthocyanins </strong>(30 times the amount found in red grapes) are the most efficent way to ingest anthocyanins known to date. If you believe that the <a href="http://www.acaibenefits.org/acai-berry-research/acai-antioxidants-are-fibrous-unlike-a-pill" title="French Paradox explained halfway down this post" target="_blank">French Paradox</a> is caused by Anthocyanins, as most nutritional scientists do, then this is a very important acai benefit to consider.  <strong><br />
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<p>4. <strong>Acai&#8217;s mineral Spectrum </strong>is also as complete if not more complete than any other single food source. It is probably true that you can&#8217;t survive your entire lifetime on any one food source, but Acai comes the closest with traces of every beneficial mineral known to mankind.</p>
<p>5. <strong>Acai&#8217;s Trace Elements</strong> are some of the most complete ever seen, both on the Macro and Micro scales. Dr. Schauss&#8217;s study was very explicit on this part of the testing, testing down as far as 2 parts per billion! They said that it was very challenging cataloging all of the different trace elements, and they beleive it has the most on record of any single food source as well.</p>
<p>6. Many other random Acai Benefits: High levels of <strong>glucosamine</strong> and other important nutrients round out this all-perfect food.</p>
<p>In retrospect, no one yet has been able to prove that many Acai benefits even exist. These are bona-fide facts, however, and they may only be the tip of the iceberg!</p>
<p>Sadly, without finding a way to grow Acai in a more developed part of the world, It could be many decades before we know exactly how awesome, and how many acai benefits there are.</p>
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		<title>Where Has Carl Been?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Cruz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  Hello loyal readers&#8230; I hope I haven&#8217;t lost too many of you in my most-of-a-year absence. I have a good excuse, I promise.
I&#8217;m afraid you might not believe me though, but here goes anyway&#8230; My mom can concur if you ask her.  
On Halloween night last year I was involved in a &#8216;Hit [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Hello loyal readers&#8230; I hope I haven&#8217;t lost too many of you in my most-of-a-year absence. I have a good excuse, I promise.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m afraid you might not believe me though, but here goes anyway&#8230; My mom can concur if you ask her. <img src='http://www.acaibenefits.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>On Halloween night last year I was involved in a &#8216;Hit and Run&#8217; 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.</p>
<p>My car &amp; I were CRUSHED. They never even found one of the tires!</p>
<p>When I woke up in the hospital they said it was a miracle that I had survived, but still the driver of the SUV got away. It took them a few weeks to find him, he was pretty much unharmed and could actually drive away from the scene! Luckily they caught him when he tried to repair his vehicle (a Hummer 2) and he&#8217;s in prison now.</p>
<p>I think he was drunk because he had a previous DUI. Why do they let people like this still drive??!?</p>
<p>Anyway, I wore a partial bodycast for months. Naturally, I thank my Acai supply for the fast recovery! Even still, my right arm &amp; hand were in a cast for months and so I lost track of this blog for a while. <img src='http://www.acaibenefits.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>In early spring of this year I considered trying again, writing more on this blog, but the traffic here was lower than ever, and I just wasn&#8217;t motivated enough to start from scratch&#8230;</p>
<p>Until just recently, I&#8217;ve noticed that while I did nothing at all, suddenly this blog is popular again and is getting traffic directly from Google! Until recently it was just getting a small amount from other Acai sites and a bit from technorati. But now, even without touching it all this time, Google really seems to like my earlier posts and is sending constant traffic here!</p>
<p>So I can&#8217;t just let all these people down. Consider me BACK ON THE JOB!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll type more slowly than before, but I will write about Acai&#8217;s benefits again. Promise.</p>
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		<title>The Power of Acai film</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Cruz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  Few people know exactly why Acai is so good for them.
Plenty of people know that it&#8217;s one of the most healthy things around, and they love to quote the one or two facts that impressed them the most, but sadly they never see the whole picture of Acai&#8217;s awesomeness unless they study the science [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Few people know exactly why Acai is so good for them.</p>
<p>Plenty of people know that it&#8217;s one of the most healthy things around, and they love to quote the one or two facts that impressed them the most, but sadly they never see the whole picture of Acai&#8217;s awesomeness unless they study the science of Acai in depth.</p>
<p>I doubt that I&#8217;m going to convince many people to do that here on this blog, so I&#8217;ve decided to pass along the next best thing.</p>
<p>A colleague of mine over at the Acai Research Organization has made an incredible film, which you can see below.  He just released this film Friday and it is already gaining a lot of popularity over at YouTube&#8230; And it&#8217;s easy to see why.</p>
<p>This film, called &#8220;The Power of Acai&#8221; is simply one of the best presentations on Acai I&#8217;ve ever seen. In just over 6 minutes it summarizes, with citations quoted, the true power of Acai and it really does a great job of explaining how it all works. This is one you&#8217;re going to want to show to your parents, and well, everyone else you know who you&#8217;d like to make sure stays healthy.</p>
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<p>If this film doesn&#8217;t play for you, you can view it on YouTube here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk28hg0olxo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk28hg0olxo</a></p>
<p>or on the Acai Research site here with much better resolution:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acairesearch.org/Power_of_Acai.html" target="_blank">http://www.acairesearch.org/Power_of_Acai.html</a></p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
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		<title>Acai - Food or Drug?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Cruz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  So here&#8217;s the dilemma: If it&#8217;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&#8230; There is a very fine line in most peoples&#8217; minds, but any line [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> So here&#8217;s the dilemma: If it&#8217;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&#8230; There is a very fine line in most peoples&#8217; minds, but any line left between the two the Acai berry has just totally erased.</p>
<p>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&#8217;d want it to be regulated so we don&#8217;t accidentally overdose on it&#8230; Although I have no idea if a ginseng or green tea overdose would be harmful or not.</p>
<p>However, the FDA, who has already approved Mona Vie&#8217;s bottling plants in Utah, is making it incredibly difficult for their distributors to sell Mona Vie &amp; other Acai berry juices for thier healing properties.</p>
<p>I have seen at least two such reports on the FDA website where they have pretty much persecuted distributors of Acai juice blends just because those distributors claimed that their product was healthy. In one case, linked below, the claim was simply that their juice contains a high amount of Antioxidents (which can be proven) and that antioxidants help your body heal itself. (Which has also been proven.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/2007/UTVokes.pdf" title="Kevin Vokes attacked by FDA" target="_blank">http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/cyber/2007/UTVokes.pdf </a></p>
<p>But that juice is sold as a food, while marketed as a drug.</p>
<p>According to the FDA&#8217;s rules, if you sell something as a food, you cannot claim it has the power to heal anything. You are not even allowed to infer that consuming it can bring you better overall health. It&#8217;s either a just food in their eyes, or a drug, which must be monitored and well-tested.</p>
<p>The Acai berry fits right in the no-man&#8217;s land for the FDA, and it is even more difficult for them that Acai doesn&#8217;t grow in the USA. The fruit itself has to enter the country as produce of another country, which undergoes testing for USDA and FDA guidleines before it leaves its&#8217; country of origin.</p>
<p>At bottling plants like Mona Vie, the FDA approval process is nothing more that a way of ensuring that everyone is wearing their gloves while handling food&#8230; It has nothing to do with drug protection or assurance at all.</p>
<p>So if they won&#8217;t let Acai juice distributors claim that their product has any healing abilities but that&#8217;s clearly the reason that everyone is buying it for, then I for one say that something is wrong with the system.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not radical enough to suggest that we do away with the FDA or anything so risky, but perhaps a third category should be introduced. While the FDA makes it hard for distributors to sell great products like Acai, in the meantime it is saving lives by ensuring people don&#8217;t overdose on seemingly-harmless drugs, and ensuring the quality of those drugs at the same time.</p>
<p>So how about a new category for the FDA, of &#8216;Healing Foods.&#8217; -Specifically, healing foods that you cannot overdose on.</p>
<p>Dr. Schuass has proven that you cannot overdose on Acai. The human body can only use about 6,000 TE of Antioxident per gram at a time, and if you ingest more than that, the overage is excreted by your liver, much like drinking too much water would&#8230; Our bloodstreams are protected from it.</p>
<p>So if people are buying some produce item to heal themselves with, there is no need to lie about its&#8217; properties as long as it can&#8217;t be taken to overdose. Why should it have to go through the intense scrutiny of FDA drug approval? Why not just say it&#8217;s got natural healing agents, can be good for your health, and stop all of this needless misdirection?</p>
<p>Of course the producers should still be responsible for reporting the truthful contents (such as the antioxidant content of their product) but to take away their ability to even say it&#8217;s good for people is lying. In fact, it should be against the law because it hurts uncountable people who would otherwise have had a healing agent in their bodies that the FDA is discriminating against right now.</p>
<p>I have no doubt that lives are being lost over nutritional issues like this. Our Food and Drug administration is such a mixed blessing that every little thing they do saves one life while costing another. It is clear that too much power rests in their hands, but I think that they have done a pretty good job so far of balancing it. Any time an unusually strong variable like Acai comes along and shakes things up, however, there are bound to be some problems.</p>
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		<title>Understanding Acai’s Antioxidants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Cruz</dc:creator>
		
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Yes, you can truthfully say that, it is a quote by Dr. Strauss, who was the first person to run an ORAC evaluation on Acai berries. However, do people really understand what this [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Here&#8217;s a quote I hear a lot from new Acai fans: &#8220;Acai has the richest Antioxidant of any food in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, you can truthfully say that, it is a quote by Dr. Strauss, who was the first person to run an ORAC evaluation on Acai berries. However, do people really understand what this means?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not really referring to the ORAC score at all, but the high number of Antioxidant Compounds in Acai, which to me is far more impressive.</p>
<p>Most people simply think that relative to other fruits, an Acai berry ranks somewhere around 1,027, while a blueberry, for instance, ranks about 92. Over ten times as much.</p>
<p>Although those are the ORAC designations for fresh Acai and fresh lowbush blueberries, this is way too simplistic of a way to think about antioxidants, and frankly some poor eating decisions are likely to be made if you continue to see it that simplistically.</p>
<p>First of all, the 1,027 is a number that represents micromoles (atomic measurements) of <span class="new">Trolox</span> Equivalents per gram of any one Antioxidant compound found inside Acai. In one compound, not separate compounds all stacked up on top of each other.</p>
<p>Trolox is the major Antioxidant inside Vitamin E. People used to take Vitamin for it&#8217;s antioxidant power, but unfortunately what works in a test tube doesn&#8217;t work the same way in our bodies, so Trolox is no longer thought of as one of the best antioxidants for our bodies anymore.</p>
<p>However, scientists still measure the Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity (ORAC value) in micromoles of Trolox&#8217;s effectiveness in a lab.</p>
<p>That being said, there have so far been at least 16 Antioxidant compounds discovered in Acai. With many unidentified compounds left to go, there may be more to add to that list.</p>
<p>The most potent Antioxidant compound in the Acai berry is called Anthocyanin, which is the reason you&#8217;ve heard that drinking red wine is good for you&#8230; Red grapes were the previous best available fruit for Anthocyanins, but now Acai beats them by 33 times!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just the Anthocyanins that are getting measured with the ORAC assay and reported at 1,027 micromoles of TE per gram. The 18 other compounds don&#8217;t beat the 1,027 score individually, but if you added them all up they&#8217;d easily dwarf the anthocyanin score!</p>
<p>The number of different compounds in other fruits are usually between 1 and 3. Acai is so far out ahead of the pack in this area too that I simply can&#8217;t believe that I haven&#8217;t read in anyone&#8217;s sales literature about it&#8230; To me it is a primary selling point!</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Think about it this way&#8230; The USDA recommends 5 fruits a day, right?  The average fruit has 1-3 Antioxidant compounds in them, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s making them so healthful.</p>
<p>So, the average of 1 &amp; 3 is two, and two times 5 fruits a day equals 15.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s fair then to say then that the USDA recommends you eat 15 Antioxidant Compounds a day&#8230; And Acai has <strong>Sixteen</strong> compounds all in that one little berry! (At the least!)</p>
<p>Actually, that&#8217;s not a very fair comparison for Acai, because the 1-3 antioxidant compounds in the 5 random fruits will very likely overlap, and worse case scenario you&#8217;re only getting 2 or 3 Antioxidant compounds from your five daily fruits.</p>
<p>The final nail in the coffin of the &#8220;multiple fruits are necessary&#8221; line of thinking for me was hearing, again from Dr. Schauss, that there is at least one Amazon tribe that eats nothing but Acai. Complete &#8220;Acaitarians.&#8221; (Yes I made that word up.)</p>
<p>So for those who think that getting five different fruits a day is essential because of the different types of fiber or the other different compounds you get from variety, I say hogwash! People are living on just one fruit, as their only food source, for entire healthy lifetimes.</p>
<p>So what else can it be that we need variation of? It&#8217;s obviously the different compounds of Antioxidants. High ORAC scores of each one are great, but a high number of compounds in the first place is what makes Acai revolutionary.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>Note to the major pharmaceutical companies:</strong> </em>Something close to a Fountain of Youth elixir is attainable. Simply find the highest ORAC sources for <strong>ALL</strong> of the different Antioxidant Compounds in their natural state and package them so they can all get into the blood easily, and don&#8217;t break down somehow.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not too much to ask to invent immortality, is it? <img src='http://www.acaibenefits.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Do you remember Beta Carotene? In the 1980&#8217;s, no one but doctors and nutritionists had ever heard that beta carotene even existed, until one day when some technician found that the high BC content in carrots does a lot of good for heart patients.
So in 1992 a major study (18,000 people) was done on [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Do you remember Beta Carotene? In the 1980&#8217;s, no one but doctors and nutritionists had ever heard that beta carotene even existed, until one day when some technician found that the high BC content in carrots does a lot of good for heart patients.</p>
<p>So in 1992 a major study (18,000 people) was done on the Antioxidant properties of beta carotene by giving it in pill form to cancer patients. It failed miserably.</p>
<p>Reseachers are still scratching their heads over why it was such an utter failure, even though beta carotene is a form of Antioxidant.</p>
<p>Vitamin E has a similar story. It too is an Antioxidant, in fact it is the one that the ORAC scale is based upon. Unlike the solid beta carotene pill incident, Vitamin E is in liquid form, so it&#8217;s getting fully digested for sure, yet it&#8217;s effects as an antioxidant are pretty nominal.</p>
<blockquote><p>Aside: It&#8217;s a pretty shocking story too&#8230; Two large studies involving more than 127,000 people in total were run in 1990 after Vitamin E was found to help Heart patients.  Because of this, by the year 2000 an estimated 23 million US citizens were taking Vitamin E daily&#8230; But in recent years 7 more such studies have been found to show little or no improvement at all!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>(You can read the whole story on it over here: <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125631.500" title="The Antioxident Myth - New Scientist" target="_blank">The Antioxident Myth - New Scientist Magazine</a>.)</p></blockquote>
<p>Anyway, let me lay down one other scenario, a more modern one. You&#8217;ve probably heard the French paradox, but if not, here&#8217;s a recap:</p>
<p>French people&#8217;s diet is the only one higher in saturated fats and cholesterol than the diet of Americans. It&#8217;s been well proven. However, with that diet, you might expect for the French to have a higher incident rate of Heart Disease than Americans, but they clearly do not.</p>
<p>Researchers believe that this paradox is caused by the very high amounts of Anthocyanins in red wine, which the French consume way more than the average amount of daily. Anthocyanins, of course, are one of the most potent Antioxidants.</p>
<p>So, what do you think will happen if they pack a pill full of Anthocyanins?</p>
<p>I&#8217;d be willing to bet the exact same thing would happen that happened with beta carotene and vitamin E&#8230; Nada.</p>
<p>These examples are hard evidence that Antioxidants must come in natural form in order to be effective free-radical scavengers. It makes perfect sense to me&#8230; What is free-radical scavenging but something acting alive and moving around? If you stop that thing cold in it&#8217;s tracks, like say, compressing it into a cold, lifeless pill, then how is that going to preserve the scavenging property?</p>
<p>So my overall point here today is to get your Antioxidants from a fibrous form, such as berries or berry pulp. Don&#8217;t let it get encapsulated or worse yet, made into a solid pill.</p>
<p>Eating the berries off the tree is the best way to get those free scavengers rampaging of course, but since everyone outside of Amazonia doesn&#8217;t have that option, your next best bet is to find it processed with consideration for preserving the fiber. Frozen pulp may be the best way to do that, but it really depends on the processing technique.</p>
<p>As for freeze dried Acai, I don&#8217;t claim to have all the answers. It seems like that would stop the scavenging dead in it&#8217;s tracks, but then again, freeze-dried Acai has the highest ORAC rating&#8230; And specifically with MonaVie, their patented process also includes re-mixing their freeze-dried Acai with fresh pulp&#8230; So perhaps that gets both the high ORAC rating and the still-moving scavengers both inside at once. And who knows? Maybe the ones still moving can reanimate the frozen ones!</p>
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		<title>History of the Acai berry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  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 &#8220;içá-çai&#8221;, which roughly translated is: “the fruit that cries”.
It&#8217;s an unusual name, but it has a story. An Acai-obsessed [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> 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.</p>
<p>It was named by the native people there as &#8220;içá-çai&#8221;, which roughly translated is: “the fruit that cries”.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an unusual name, but it has a story. An Acai-obsessed Brazilian told this one to me.<br />
(You&#8217;ll have to judge yourself how factual it is.)</p>
<p>Many moons ago there was an Amazon Indian girl named &#8220;Iaca,&#8221; whose father was the tribe&#8217;s chief. His tribe had outgrown the local food supply and there was no longer enough food for everyone.</p>
<p>The chief decreed that all newborn babies must be killed until food supplies are sustainable again. (Pretty drastic, I know. When Iaca, his own daughter had a child herself, the chief had his one grandbaby killed in order to not appear two-faced.</p>
<p>Iaca naturally wasn&#8217;t too happy, mourning her baby’s death alone in her hut for days.</p>
<p>Then she she heard a baby crying outdoors, and followed the sound into the Jungle. After a little while she came across a very tall palm tree, covered in purple fruit.</p>
<p>Seeing all the food that could have saved her daughter was too much for Iaca, so some say she died right there against the trunk of the tree.</p>
<p>The next morning the other tribesmen found the new tree and Iaca’s body. The tree’s<br />
fruit satisfied their hunger and renewed their energy, making them stronger than ever<br />
before. The chief lifted his harsh ruling and declared that the fruit would be named for his daughter, and named it Acai, because acai is “Iaca” spelled backwards.</p>
<p>So with plenty of food for all, the tribe grew and is still there eating Acai berries three meals a day to this day.</p>
<p>One very interesting thing to note about that story is that very few of the native indian tribes from before Columbus had survived in South America&#8230; Most were wiped out, not by conquistadors, but by European germs.</p>
<p>But not those who lived on the Acai berry. Their numbers never dwindled!</p>
<p>In modern times, Acai has been eaten daily for decades by people across Brazil.</p>
<p>A cold bowl of Acai is usually eaten in the morning for breakfast. (I eat one of these<br />
myself each morning&#8230; Yum!)</p>
<p>In the 1950’s, local doctors began to notice the health benefits of Acai.</p>
<p>In the 1980&#8217;s, refrigerated trucks were able to get the first frozen berries from the rainforest to Rio, where it has flourished as a very popular smoothie, ice-cream, and even cocktail ingredient ever since. They eat it many times a day down there and almost always eat it with dinner when they stay out late to party all night.</p>
<p>Only recently, since late 2000, have a few small start-up companies attempted to bring it to the United States and other countries. One of the first companies was Sambazon, and they are to this day the largest supplier of Acai berry pulp outside of Brazil.</p>
<p>Since it started showing up in supermarkets across the country, new medical studies have popped up and researchers are founding out about all of the exciting health benefits of Acai on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Dr. Andrew Schauss was the first to perform an ORAC analysis on the Acai Berry, and since has inspired many, many other doctors and scientists to run their own tests.</p>
<p>To date, none have ever failed to be amazed.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> The Acai berry has had so many testimonials in it&#8217;s favor in the last few years alone that it&#8217;s hard to believe that there&#8217;s anything left out there that it can&#8217;t cure&#8230; But just to keep this interesting, let&#8217;s pretend for a moment that it has only been shown to make a few backs feel better and a few joints move more smoothly&#8230; And then tack on all the facts and hard evidence we can.</p>
<p>First of all there is the famous 2006 press release by the University of Florida with their Leukemia experiment. (See the previous post)</p>
<p>What I didn&#8217;t mention before from that series of experiments is that many scientists have placed other fruits with high concentrations of Antioxidents in the same type of experimental situations with Leukemia and other cancer cells, and in each case the Antioxidents were effective to some varying degree at destroying the cancer, although none so effectively as Acai.</p>
<p>That would seem to be irrefutable proof that it is an Antioxident compound of some kind that is our best weapon against Cancer.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s only one of a few compounds in this remarkable fruit. The fact is, there are between 50 and 75 other compounds in Acai that researchers have yet to classify. Each and every one of them could mean something remarkable&#8230; We just don&#8217;t know yet because the data is still so new and the berries are just so far away.</p>
<p>For all we know getting enough of those in our diet could make us bulletproof&#8230; Unlikely but still, lots of testing needs to be done.</p>
<p>What I find even more interesting still is the fact that we have never had a single food source before with &#8220;every single essential nutrient and trace element that humans need.&#8221; (Quote by Dr. Andrew Schauss.) I don&#8217;t know what that means to you, but to me that sounds a lot like we don&#8217;t need to eat anything else&#8230; Just eat enough Acai and we&#8217;re perfectly fueled.</p>
<p>Once I can get my hands on enough Acai at a reasonable price, I plan to test this theory out on myself. Until then, the fact that Dr. Schauss has also reported that at least one tribe in the Amazon eats nothing at all but the Acai berry, then that says it all to me. It&#8217;s simply everything we need&#8230; And then some.</p>
<p>I simply can&#8217;t wait to find out what the next breakthroughs are&#8230; I&#8217;ve even set up Google&#8217;s news alerts service so that I&#8217;ll hear as soon as each story about Acai is released.  So, as soon as we know what these unknown benefits of the Acai berry are, you&#8217;ll hear it here first.</p>
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What I want to know is why wasn&#8217;t this on the front page of the NY Times? Where was the CNN coverage? Why didn&#8217;t [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> It&#8217;s hardly breaking news now, but in January 2006 the University of Florida released findings about how the Acai berry destroyed 86% of the Leukemia cells in a cell culture model.</p>
<p>What I want to know is why wasn&#8217;t this on the front page of the NY Times? Where was the CNN coverage? Why didn&#8217;t any of the most respected medical publications do a big story on this?</p>
<p>I realize that thousands of medical press releases are put out each and every month, but this is a matter of priority&#8230; Were the stories of Jan 2006 so important that they really deserved to edge out a very realistic cure for cancer?</p>
<p>Instead of worldwide trumpeting, here is the one and only official mention of it:</p>
<p><a href="http://news.ufl.edu/2006/01/12/berries" target="_blank">news.ufl.edu/2006/01/12/berries</a></p>
<p>One page on the UF website&#8230; Out of over 200 releases that month!</p>
<p>The American Cancer Society currently shows that 1.44 Million Americans have documented cases of Cancer. They also report that the survival rate of these people is way up from the middle of the last century, from around 50% up to now 65%.</p>
<p>So that means 35% of 1.44 million people are going to die soon&#8230; The rest are just going to spend uncountable dollars on doctors &amp; drugs and suffer enough pain to wish they were dead.</p>
<p>Has Acai ever been proven to Cure cancer? Not in a laboratory, it&#8217;s too new. Acai berries only made it to the US in the last Seven years and the 2006 experiment was the very first one with the berries at all. However, PLENTY of people who had some form of cancer attest to the fact that Acai berry drinks have cured their cancer!</p>
<p>Here is a video I found on YouTube where one lady gives her testimonial about one of the best Acai Berry juices. Pay attention to the blonde lady&#8217;s testimonial at 4:58 in this film:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvgw_jceqZg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvgw_jceqZg</a></p>
<p>After learning all about how cancer lives and thrives, and how cancer&#8217;s worst enemy is and always has been Antioxidents, it seems more than blatantly obvious that the Acai berry&#8217;s effect on cancerous cells  would either be a cure or at least lead to a cure.</p>
<p>Think about this: Cells in your body die in two ways&#8230; The proper  way, and the harmful way. (Which leads to cancer.) The proper way is called Apoptosis, which is where the cell gives off a signal for a white blood cell to come and destroy it and remove the waste.</p>
<p>The harmful way is when they either fail to give off the signal, or the white blood cells are too busy to get to them in time&#8230; Because before too long, that cell starts breaking down and releasing free radicals&#8230; Little parts of cells that bang into other cells, stealing electrons and doing lots of damage.</p>
<p>Another word for that is called &#8220;aging.&#8221; Free radical damage accounts for just about everything we associate with the physical aging process.</p>
<p>If all cells in your body ended in Apoptosis, then there would be no cancer, nor even aging. Doctors know this for a fact.</p>
<p>No one says that Acai berries can stop every cell in your body from releasing free radicals, but Acai has by far the most Antioxident compounds of anything else on this planet.</p>
<p>Not just 10% more than the next best thing&#8230; Acai has 10 TIMES more than the next best thing.</p>
<p>In short, we were always hunting free radicals with a bow &amp; arrow before, but now someone just gave us a full infantry unit with air support, snipers, explosives, and bazookas!</p>
<p>There is no reason in the world for anyone to EVER get cancer again. Literally. Those even born with it can start taking large doses of Acai berry juice and very likely they will survive.</p>
<p>Those that are self inflicted (tobacco) obviously need to stop smoking first, and that will solve half the problem, while Acai fills in the rest. For the first time ever, those people who are still smoking because they think it&#8217;s too late anyway now have a reason for hope.</p>
<p>If only someone would tell them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m trying my best here, but I need your help. PLEASE get a friend or loved one to read this and try some high-quality Acai berry juice for themselves, especially if they have or are at high risk for contracting cancer.</p>
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If you are new to the incredible world of Acai (which is how English speakers type the Brazilian word &#8220;Açaí &#8220;) then allow us to be your guide to learning the most profoundly important thing you&#8217;ll ever learn in this lifetime.
If you are a long-time [...] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Welcome to the first post of the Acai Benefits blog.</p>
<p>If you are new to the incredible world of Acai (which is how English speakers type the Brazilian word &#8220;Açaí &#8220;) then allow us to be your guide to learning the most profoundly important thing you&#8217;ll ever learn in this lifetime.</p>
<p>If you are a long-time Acai consumer, then hold on tight, it&#8217;s just about to START getting intersting!</p>
<p>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&#8217;t produce, how some call it the &#8220;Viagra of the Amazon,&#8221; and even how Dr. Perricone went on Oprah and dubbed it the #1 Superfood&#8230;</p>
<p>-Well, that stuff is the very baseline, beginner-level triva!</p>
<p>This blog is going to share with you the IMPORTANT stuff. Acai berries are so much more than a novelty item that we should treat like the multivitamin of the day&#8230; Acai quite literally is the perfect food source for the human body, having everything we need and incredibly small amounts of things we don&#8217;t need, all in one single berry.</p>
<p>The word &#8220;Superfood&#8221; doesn&#8217;t do it justice.</p>
<p>Just to wet your appetite, here are some facts about Acai that Dr. Schauss, the worlds #1 researcher of Acai berries himself recently said:</p>
<ul>
<li>Acai has EVERY SINGLE ESSENTIAL NUTRIENT required for humans&#8230; Unusual!</li>
<li>Acai contains every essential and non-essential Amino Acid that humans require, also very rare in a single food source.</li>
<li>Acai contains an extremely low level of heavy metals, many times lower than in most normal foods.</li>
<li>Acai contains a considerable amount of complex carbohydrates, rather than simple carbohydrates.</li>
<li>Acai is also ultra-low in Sodium &amp; cholesterol.</li>
</ul>
<p>Dr. Perricone, a much more famous Doctor and speaker in his New York Times #1 bestselling book &#8220;Perricone Promise&#8221; stated that Acai has:</p>
<ul>
<li>The protein profile of an egg.</li>
<li>Essential fatty acids (omega 3, 6 and 9) similar to olive oil. (which we can&#8217;t make ourselves)</li>
<li>A low glycemic index. (Great for diabetics)</li>
<li>A leading source of anthocyanins, often reported as 30 times that of the protective potential of red wine. (Of the many attributes of anthocyanins is its anti-inflammatory qualities)</li>
<li>High fiber content!</li>
<li>More than 16 different phytonutrients and antioxidants.</li>
<li>Copious amounts of trace (i.e. Co, Cr, Cu, Mo) and macro minerals. (i.e. Ca, Fe)</li>
<li>Packed with vitamins, including natural vitamins C &amp; E. (mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols)</li>
<li>An excellent source of plant sterols, particularly Beta-Sitosterol which is associated with cholesterol lowering capabilities.</li>
</ul>
<p>We could go on all day quoting Doctors and researchers&#8230; It&#8217;s simply incredible.</p>
<p>It really is as if a loving god created the perfect, perfect food source for us that would allow our bodies to be healthy forever, and then couldn&#8217;t resist hiding it down in the rainforest to give us a challenge&#8230; <img src='http://www.acaibenefits.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Did you know that there are tribes who eat NOTHING, and I mean absolutely nothing at all but Acai berries? Studies are just starting to find all the fascinating things about Acai from those people, but it&#8217;s slow going because they are so difficult to communicate with.</p>
<p>These tribesman also have no idea how old they themselves are, so Dr. Schauss is having a hard time figuring out their age! (They could be 500 years old for all he knows right now.)</p>
<p>Much more is known about the health effects of Acai from local, civilized peoples of Brazil like those who live in the city of Belem. -Where the majority of the Acai we eat up here is grown.</p>
<p>Belemians (Yes, I just made that word up) all eat acai with every single meal, but they add things like meats to their diet too. The skin of a 60 year old Belemian, despite living on the equator where UV A &amp; B rays would completely obliterate the typical american&#8217;s skin, has _NO_ wrinkles, soft as a baby&#8217;s bottom.  Everyone there looks quite young in fact, and I for one can&#8217;t wait to hear how old the eldest person there is.</p>
<p>The bottom line here folks, is that Acai is truly an Earth-shattering, once in a millenia, world-changing occurrence that is simply not being taken seriously enough. It will one day of course, when all the tests have been run and the scientists can hold up a chart showing exactly how to live to 200 just by eating nothing but Acai pulp&#8230; But that&#8217;s really only the smallest part of the picture we are trying to draw with this Blog&#8230;</p>
<p>Acai is going to change EVERYTHING. Just watch&#8230; The stock market, the Medical feild, philosophy, religion, personal health and hygiene, diet &amp; excersize habits, parental values, and quite certainly the iron grip that the pharmaceutical industry has on your wallet.</p>
<p>It is a VERY exciting time to be alive, and we don&#8217;t mean the technological advances, for once.</p>
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