Acai Berry Fact or Fiction?
April 4, 2009 Filed under Acai Berry
A lot of material has been written and compiled for the benefits of a berry fruit, that until recently, was not known to much of the world. Being a product of Brazil, the acai berry fruit is a fruit grown in the Amazon rain-forests of South America.
Local peoples have been using the berry as a critical part of their diet for hundreds of years. As a great source of anti-oxidants, the berry has been praised for a wide variety of health benefits. This article will investigate the history of the acai berry to find out once and for all whether the claims about the fruit are real, or just a bunch of hype.
The star fruit status that the acai berry fruit has garnered over the last few years, and its increased use and adoption is because its been widely marketed as the preferred fruit for those innocent set of consumers who find themselves searching for alternatives that help age less, keep you living long and electrify the immune system against diseases and threats.
Like all beauty or anti-aging products, there are plenty of skeptics and believers when it comes to the acai berry. Many fans of the berry have seen great results in areas of weight loss and enhancing metabolism rate, however, anyone looking to drop a few pounds should know that no single pill or drink, whether its acai berry or not is not going to be a magic bullet. Any product, whether acai or not, that claims to help you shed large amounts of weight without any work should be viewed skeptically.
Acai Reporter on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 4:57 pm
Acai berries have been around for centuries. Legend has it that it was first spotted in an tribe in the Amazon where starvation was a problem because of the tribe’s vast population. It was decreed by the tribe chief for all babies to be sacrificed so that their population will not grow any bigger and food will be enough for all. When the chief’s daughter gave birth, her baby was not spared. One evening while mulling about the fate of her baby, the chief’s daughter heard her dead baby’s cries and followed it to a palm tree in the tribal village. The next morning, she was found dead under the palm tree. When the tribesmen looked up into the tree, they found clumps of blue berries that eventually saved the whole tribe from starvation. The tree became known as the acai berry tree or the tree of life.
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