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Acai Berry Programs

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 No Comments

Facts about Products with Acai Berry Extract

There are more products featuring acai berry extract on the market today than any other type of acai berry product. Many people, in fact, prefer to take these pills that contain the extract rather than buy frozen acai berries or drink juice made from acai berries. Generally, you take one or two of the pills a day with each meal, and each pill contain a good amount of acai berry extract. If that’s all the product contains, you don’t have to worry about any side effects.

However, some acai berry extract products contain other ingredients like green tea (which contains caffeine) or high amounts of fibre (most acai berry colon cleansing products contain a lot of fibre). It can be hard to figure out what an acai berry product contains, though, because some websites that sell these products do not contain full ingredient lists. Beyond that, asking for a free trial of a product can lead to you being enrolled in the program. If you don’t cancel your enrolment within a certain amount of time, your credit card will be charged for a full supply of the product. This can be very expensive, so you need to cancel as soon as you decide you want to.

Posted by lunacorp on April 4th, 2009 No Comments

Weight Loss Exercise Is Not As Difficult As It Seems

Everyone knows that the key to successful weight loss is a proper diet and proper exercise. It is this latter phrase — ‘exercise’ — that instills fear in the heart of many people who would otherwise be successful in their quest for a healthier lifestyle, and unfortunately a better diet alone — even when combined with something like Acai supplements that really do help — will not make you fit. Just the idea of going to the gym and trying to work out with all those other super fit people is for some an insurmountable mental barrier to exercise.Here’s the thing that makes no sense with this way of thinking: exercise doesn’t have to involve a gym. Sure a gym is a great place to go to put some variety in your workout, but if it seems like a nightmare to you then there’s absolutely no necessity to go until you’re feeling more confident about yourself. Even then, many fit people stay out of the gym completely.So what exercises should you do? Push ups, sit ups, steps, and using dumbbells are all great ways to exercise the majority of your muscles. If you’re feeling brave then head outside and walk, cycle or run your way to fitness! This is all simple stuff, but it works for weight loss.

Posted by lunacorp on March 10th, 2009 No Comments

Sleep easier with Acai Berry

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 No Comments

What is An Acai Berry?

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 No Comments

Acai Berry Free Trial Offer: Try Acai Elsewhere

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 No Comments

Acai helps weight loss in different ways

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 No Comments

Look and feel better with pure Acai

There are lots of very good reasons why the acai berry has suddenly shot to fame. Its fame is definitely well deserved, and those who haven’t yet heard of it surely soon will.

The first reason, and probably the most compelling, is that concentration of antioxidants in acai is so far and above that in any other fruit. Antioxidants are good because they help your body to combat the effects of premature aging and generally make our bodies perform to their potential. Red wine is famed for its antioxidant properties, but it pales in comparison with acai: acai has 10 times more.

Other great reasons why you should try and get as much acai into your system as possible include the amino acids and monounsaturated fats that it contains. All good for your body and all present in the little acai berry.

Unfortunately you won’t see acai in the shops because it degrades incredibly quickly. Your best bet is a product like Pure Acai. The selling point of Pure Acai is that it takes the pure extract from the acai berry and uses that – as suggested by the name Pure Acai — it is not mixed with other things or processed in any other way. Pure Acai is a convenient way in which to get the acai into your system without it disturbing your lifestyle in any way.

Posted by lunacorp on December 13th, 2008 No Comments

How to buy Acai?

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 No Comments

No competition for Acai preserves

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 No Comments