Have you ever seen beautiful purple flowers? How about a deep red grape or a bright red Fuji apple? If you answered yes (and if you said no – stop reading this article and go out and enjoy nature more!) then you have seen anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are flavonoid pigments that plants and fruits synthesize. Anthocyanins give plants and fruits their beautiful pigmentation – but it is not all about looks. Anthocyanins can acts as a sunscreen for plants and in fruits the bright color attracts animals which feast on the fruits and in the process disperse the seeds. However, the aspect of Anthocyanins that is of most interest in regard to the acai fruit is their antioxidant properties.
Fruits (like the Acai Berry Fruit) that are exposed to strong sunlight face a tremendous amount of ultra violet light stress. This UV light triggers free radicals to form in the fruit. Fruits, such as the Acai berry, develop high levels of anthocyanins because they have very strong antioxidants properties and can quench the free radicals. Here is the interesting part – the antioxidant properties of anthocyanins are maintained even after they are eaten by another organism. This is why fruits with bright pigmentation tend to have the great ORAC values – they are loaded with anthocyanins! Yes, you guessed it – Acai berries have a tremendous concentration of anthocyanins.
The French have a diet very rich in cheese, sugar, coffee, nicotine, sugar and white flour. With this type of diet you would expect the French to have a very high rate of heart disease, however, the exact opposite is true. The ability of the French to consume a heart clogging diet and yet have a very low rate of heart disease has been labeled the French Paradox.
Researchers now believe they have the reason for the “French Paradox” – anthocyanins! The French drink a significant amount of red wine and the the red wine grape, due to its anthocyanins is what is believed to be responsible for the very low incidence of heart disease. While red wine has a good quantity of anthocyanins, the Acai berry has over 30 times the anthocyanins as red wine.
If you want real acai berries then you will have to go to the Brazilian rain forest. Seriously. Once harvested the fruit degrades so quickly that distributors cannot get it out of Brazil without some pre-processing (or freezing) which turns it into a different product. If you’re really interested in getting as much acai as possible then you should move to the areas where they harvest the acai fruit: these people take in acai fruit comprising around 42% of their food by weight. Wow.
One of the better ways to get the acai to your grocery bag is with acai preserves. Acai preserves really are just what they sound like, and you would make them in same way that you would make strawberry or raspberry jam. And like with strawberries and raspberries, the more the better; so it is with acai preserves which contain up to 99% of their volume as acai fruit.
Pretty impressive by any standard, but phenomenal when you compare it to the alternatives which can be pills and powders said to contain acai. I would much rather have the real thing in front of me.
The good thing about the very simple way in which acai preserves are made is that the minimal processing means maximum retention of all the goodness and nutrients in the acai.
As more people begin to hear about the possible side effects of using their cell phones, they don’t tend to stop using them because the truth is that we have become very dependant on them. People will however worry about these side effects and hope that it won’t happen to them. The main side effect that people are worrying about are possible brain tumors. It is thought that cell phone use leads to possible brain tumors in future years.
Another problem with cell phones is that they tend to not be very dependable. Sometimes you will have a hard time making a phone call and other times you will be on your cell phone and wind up experiencing dropped calls, this can be very annoying. A cell phone booster can also help you out with this.
When you use a cell phone booster your cell phone will find a signal and hold that signal faster and stronger. The less that your cell phone works at obtaining and keeping a signal, the better the quality of the call and the less the chances that you will suffer from this scary health risk. If you own a cell phone then you will want to get a cell phone booster.
If you’ve read anything at all about Acai, you’ve seen references to Oprah proclaiming the virtues of the Acai Berry. But it is actually pretty difficult to find any quotes or video of what she says. That’s because the scammers have been making all kinds of outrageous claims about Acai being some kind of miracle diet pill, and using Oprah’s name to try and lend credibility to these claims. So, Oprah’s lawyers have been VERY busing getting videos pulled from youtube. Above is a little bit of Oprah with Dr Perricone introducing the Acai Berry juice to her audience. Pretty skimpy stuff.
But there is a lot of buzz about Oprah shedding some light on the Acai scene on her “best life week” special runs Jan 5. The quote below is from her website talking about her struggles, and a little about the special. For the full hour by hour schedule of events for this week visit www.oprah.com.
Oprah Winfrey opens up about her recent 40-pound weight gain and reveals intimate details about her struggle to stay in shape after being diagnosed with a thyroid problem in the January issue of O, The Oprah Magazine and in a special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Monday, January 5, 2009. Both kick off Oprah’s “Best Life Week” a multiplatform, company-wide event designed to help readers, viewers, listeners and online users confront the issues in their own lives and make a commitment to wake up and unlock their own personal happiness in 2009.
One of the most impressive things about the internet is the way in which it allows we the people to decide what we want to watch, read and listen to. The rise of P2P file sharing is testament to the ultimate in democratic access to information. Ares Download has taken the concept of P2P networking to the next level and it promises to become the fastest and safest growing P2P network. This is because the network is open sourced and decentralised, it belongs to the community. Ares download is geared toward the sharing of smaller files and unlike many of the other bit torrent clients it has no corporate structure for the MPAA to target. Also because of its open source coding the client is able to quickly react to the new and pernicious types of control the ISP’s and MPAA are using in their fight against free information exchange.
Ares is able to quickly react to and overcome traffic firewalls and most types of traffic snooping developed by ISP’s in response to bullying by the MPAA. Ares allows users to upload files in safety without the fear of receiving a massive fine from the MPAA or equivalent organisations.
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Acai Berry has a special place in my heart: until very recently I was ABSOLUTELY dead against anything to do with it. The problem was that like so many other people who had tried to get acai supplements on a ‘free trial’, I got stung. I was convinced that I would just pay the shipping, try the supplements, and just go from there. Simple? Of course not.
Mine is a familiar story. You’ve all heard about the ’scam’ with these so-called acai berry Free Trial Offers; my first adventure into acai berry was, unfortunately, absolutely no different. To cut a long story short I had to cancel my credit card because the company that sold me the acai product were unreachable and definitely not too eager to perform any customer service. Great. It wasn’t even like the supplements they sent me were that good, and they were undoubtedly way overpriced.
After this little disappointment I went on a bit of a mission to try and find a legit company that would provide me with real acai, and not blatantly steal my hard-earned cash.
I found Acai Berry Ultra-Slim and it looked just fine – don’t they always? – mainly because it promised to suppress hunger: apparently acai does this just fine anyway, but Acai Berry Ultra-Slim actually emphasizes this benefit with the addition of something called Essentra Slim. On top of this you get all the usual benefits of acai berry. So far so good. The site was called Acai Berry Site.
Of course, the astute reader will know that this was just acai berry marketing pitch at its finest. The last company that I ordered from impressed me with their sales pitch, too, and look what happened there! A little more research was required, and I checked out the company that sold Ultra-Slim as well as those that manufactured it. I also read the Terms and Conditions very, very carefully and, thankfully, there was no indication that there would be any re-bills at all.
I decided to bite the bullet and go for it.
I’m on my third bottle of acai berry puree now, and I’m convinced I’m better for it. I’m also absolutely thrilled that, for once, this acai supplier does not feel the need to steal money from my card! Ultra-Slim was a the right choice.
