If you search the internet for acai berry extract products, you’ll find dozens and dozens of them. Once you narrow down your selections, you may find that you’ve discovered a great deal…but there’s almost always a catch to these online acai berry programs. Not to say that they’re all bad, but you need to be careful when signing up.
Nearly all online acai berry programs offer a free trial period. This is great in that you do get to try the product out to make certain you like it. However, there’s a downside here: once you agree to the free trial, you’re almost always signed up for the main program. This means you’ll automatically receive a new monthly supply of the acai berry extract product every month. It also means your credit card will be charged every month for the product. If you don’t want this, especially if you decide you don’t like the product after the free trial, you must cancel your membership before the first month’s supply ships. Sometimes this is easy. However, sometimes there are issues with contacting the company and cancelling your membership. Be certain you know how to cancel before you sign up for the free trial just to be on the safe side.
Posted by lunacorp on May 4th, 2009
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I suffered from sleep problems for many years: I was restless and just couldn’t sleep on a night. This made me tired during the day. I was told that the whole problem was largely due to stress; of course being tired during the day and unable to carry out my job properly just made me even more stressed — a catch 22 situation. It was a horrible period in my life.
I went to a sleep therapist and she explained that sleep is affected by the stressed muscles around my body. Because they are stressed they do not allow me to sleep. “Here,” she said, “try acai berry“. Apparently the acai berry contains loads of amino acids that help to relax individual muscles. It also contains vitamin B, a vitamin which allows the body to properly regulate production of the neurotransmitters that impact on your ability to sleep properly.
So I did.
And what a difference it made. Really. A couple of days passed before I started getting the full benefits, but this little acai berry has changed my life so much for the better; it’s difficult to imagine just how tired I was then, compared to how much energy I have now. Wonderful!
Posted by lunacorp on February 20th, 2009
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The fruit of the Acai palm is a not, in fact, a berry at all. Even though it is consistently referred to as the acai berry, it is a drupe. For the purposes of clarity, I will use the phrases acai berry and acai drupe interchangeably in this article.
The Acai berry is about 25mm in diameter, and looks a lot like a grape. Inside the berry is a single large seed that takes up a good proportion of the total volume. The flesh around this seed is quite hard and contains much of the pulp that makes up the increasingly popular acai berry pulps and juices that we see.
The berry grows in groups of between 700 and 900 fruits on very tall acai palms; each palm can produce 2 crops on an annual basis. The acai palms are native to tropical regions in Central and South America and tend to like to grown in flood plains and swamps. the palm itself is tall and slender, often growing as high as 30 meters The acai palm is cultivated — and its fruit harvested — almost primarily due to the huge explosion in the demand for acai juices, pulps and products.
Posted by lunacorp on January 29th, 2009
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The Acai berry free trial offer is a well known scam. Well known, unfortunately, to those of us in the industry and those that have already been scammed. Others continue to fall for the Acai berry free trial offer in droves. To demonstrate just how dodgy these ‘deals’ are, take a look at this sample terms and conditions page from a typical Acai berry free trial offer site.
“I understand that unless I cancel by calling 1-SCAM-ME-GOOD within this 14-day period, beginning on the 14th day my credit card will automatically be charged $92.58 (Free Shipping) for a 31 day supply of Extreme AcaiBerry to be shipped at that time to my door.”
Right. So, as you can see you’ve got only a little time in which to call the suppliers and cancel your ’subscription’. The problem is that many people sign up for the Acai berry free trial offer not knowing that they’re getting themselves into this situation. If this wasn’t bad enough then the phone lines are often either not answered or disconnected, meaning actually cancelling that subscription is going to be pretty difficult.
These kind of ‘deals’ are clearly scams and are recognised as such by the authorities. Unfortunately they are generally back up and running within a few days of being shut down.
Posted by lunacorp on January 19th, 2009
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The Acai Berry has been getting a lot of attention from media outlets, lately. Partly this is because it has been shown that acai helps weight loss. If there’s anything that gets the public attention quickly it’s aids to weight loss. Acai is on the nail with this one. If you carefully look over the benefits that this fruit offers, it’s not that big of a surprise to see why so many different people agree that this is one of the best things the rainforest has offered humanity.
Dr. Perricone, a professor at the College of Medicine at Michigan state, is a strong supporter of the Acai Berry. Another proud supporter is Oprah Winfrey, and we all know whenever Oprah speaks, she is definitely heard. Oprah has essentially stood on the rooftops and told us about the benefits of acai as a weight loss aid.
If you ever decide to sit down and analyze all the potentials that the acai berry can have when being taken as a aid for dieting, you too will want to run and jump on the bandwagon, and start buying acai products, and bragging about this super food.
Even if you’re not interested in weight loss, acai still offers numerous benefits.
All these reasons should make it clear why the acai berry is so successful. A product that has pure extracts of the acai berry and plant is called Acai Pure. It is recommended by many experts, specifically because of the way it can assist you in getting the proper nutrients that your body needs. The best thing about this product is that you don’t even have to buy Acai Pure, because it’s currently being offered at a risk free product! Whether or not you’re looking for help with your weight loss, acai is an excellent choice.
Posted by lunacorp on December 15th, 2008
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Acai berries are a wonderful source of essential nutrients; they are delicious and, now, readily available. If you’ve decided to go ahead and buy acai then you are in very good company indeed. You can also rest assured that this is one of the best decisions that you have made recently.
When you buy acai, though, do you think back to the time when the particular acai berry that you’re looking at was not available to buy, but was a small berry on a very large tree. Do you consider that if it weren’t for the locals that live in the vicinity of the acai palm, we would not be able to buy acai at all?
There are many producers and distributors of acai that crop up all over the web. If you’re hoping to buy acai then deciding where to buy acai from may be one of your greatest problems. These people rely heavily on the harvesting of the acai berry by locals. They then turn these berries from their raw form into the products that we often see advertised today. From purees to preserves to juices to pulps to supplements, acai is a wonderful product and is universally acknowledged as a very good thing indeed.
Posted by lunacorp on November 25th, 2008
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Getting acai from the rain forests of Brazil is no mean feat. Getting them to your grocery store in New York is an even bigger problem, and not least because the berries tend to degrade very quickly after they are harvested. In fact the only way to get them there in any edible state is to do a little bit of processing at the place of harvest.
Of course the more processing is done the longer the acai will last before it goes bad; unfortunately more processing means less of the nutrients are present in the acai when it reaches your home. This is until you consider what is likely the perfect solution: acai preserves.
Not only are acai preserves excellent for ensuring that the acai is still edible when it arrives, it is also very delicious in its own right. Also, as acai preserves is, well, a preserve, it can be used to prepare food in so many different ways. It sounds a little trite to say it, but you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Eating acai preserves is a little odd because it tastes a lot like chocolate syrup — albeit a fruity chocolate syrup. Eating chocolate does not match in my mind to being healthy, so there is a mental barrier to cross.
Posted by lunacorp on November 25th, 2008
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Oprah Winfrey has a lot of weight to throw around; not in the physical sense, but in the sense that when she says something, the world listens carefully.
So it was when she introduced Dr. Perricone’s book — The Perricone Promise — to the world. Dr. Nicholas Perricone had toiled over his well researched book for quite a time, and had filled it — to the best of his knowledge — with the cutting edge of knowledge and research at that time. One particular part of the book that Oprah dwelled upon was the list of so called super foods. Super foods are those which contain more nutrition per unit weight than other, normal, foods. Top of this list was the acai berry from Brazil.
Acai is not sold in its natural state — it simply can’t be stored or transported like this — so sales of acai supplements went through the roof. The world had decided that the benefits of acai berry supplements are the best way to get the nutritional goodness into our families, our children, and our diets. Acai supplements benefits– rightly — were seen as a wonderful way to help us eat right, get healthy and stay healthy.
acai berry supplements are not the only way to get your hands on acai, but it is one of the better ones.
Posted by lunacorp on November 20th, 2008
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We talk glibly about super foods and about how good they are for our delicate bodies, but nobody really explains just what a super food actually is. And why is it so beneficial to include a variety of super foods in your diet?
Super foods contain a lot of the nutrients that our body requires, and eating them means that many of our dietary requirements can be me without having to consume a lot of foods. Sometimes — with a restricted or bad diet — our bodies don’t get enough of some of these nutrients no matter how much we eat, so it is important that they are topped up some how. A super food is an excellent way to top up these nutrient levels.
The acai berry is a fruit harvested in the Amazon Basin. It is a very important fruit within the context of this article. Read on…
The acai berry is quickly rising to the top of the pile as a super food, with some nutritional and medical experts already recommending it as a must-have. The acai berry contains a lot of essential omega fatty acids, a lot of amino acid and a lot of antioxidants. Put together these ingredients can do your body a lot of good. No wonder there is a huge demand for acai berry products across the world.
Posted by lunacorp on November 15th, 2008
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Monavie juice is a type of acai juice that has been the subject of a great deal of scandal lately. Here I will examine some of the reasons why the press and Monavie’s own customers have turned on the product.
Monavie juice was launched in 2005 by Monarch Health Sciences. Monarch Health sciences was founded in 2003 and is essentially a multi-level marketing company that distributes diet and weight loss supplements. Monavie LLC is an offshoot of this parent company and was created solely for the distribution and marketing of the Monavie product as a dietary supplement.
Physicians and nutritionists have claimed that Monavie’s health and nutritional benefits are unproven; certainly the claims made by the distributors cannot be proved. One great hurdle for the Monavie team was to explain why their product was mixed with so many other juices. There is no good answer for this.
Monavie has understandably suffered heavily under this criticism and alternative acai juices like Amazon Thunder have taken its place. These other acai juices have the distinct advantage that they contain appreciable amounts of acai, they retail at under half the price, and they don’t have a history of lying to their customers and fans. Easy to see why customers are flocking to Monavie’s competition!
Posted by lunacorp on November 12th, 2008
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