Saturday, June 13, 2009

Acai Berry Products Might Help You Lose Body Fat

By Robin J Hayes

The strong acai berry that is grown only in the rainforests of Brazil is a nutritional powerhouse. If you have read any of the investigation on this little berry you will see that there are claims ranging from weight loss to sickness prevention to anti-aging.

Does this tiny, little berry in reality live up to its excessive claims? The answer is a unquestionable "yes" and more and more scientific studies are back it up.

The acai berry contains a variety of nutrients including an array of antioxidants, essential fatty acids, phytosterols and dietary fiber. It is really one of the most nourishing foods ever found in nature.

Current research involving one of the flavonoids found in the acai berry indicates that this berry may be useful for weight loss and disease prevention. The acai berry contains an enormously strong flavonoid called anthocyanins. This is the water-soluble, vacuolar pigment the makes the deep purple, deep blue and deep red colors in some of the healthiest foods found in the natural world.

This is the pigment that is responsible for making blueberries that deep, almost black blue, for making purple cabbage purple, and red grapes that deep maroon color. It is also plentiful in cherries, strawberries, blackberries, eggplant, purple corn, red wine and more. The good news about the acai berry is that it has some of the utmost anthocyanin contents found in nature.

Some current scientific studies involving laboratory mice showed that anthocyanins prevented obesity when the mice were fed a high-fat diet. In the studies they gave the mice purified anthocyanins from blueberries and strawberries. The group that was given the anthocyanins gained a reduced amount of weight and had a lower body fat level than the control group.

An remarkable observation is that another group were fed the tangible fruit of the blueberries and the strawberries and they did not have the matching result, in fact this group in reality had more obesity. While it is too soon to know how this study on mice will translate to humans, the fact is that anthocyanins are exceedingly beneficial no matter what.

And while this is not definite proof and one must come to their own conclusions, it also may to some extent explain why there are so many persons who have had such great success with weight loss by using acai berry products. The acai berry is exceedingly fragile and it must be swiftly freeze dried to protect the nutrients. Therefore many of these products do contain a more purified form of anthocyanins.

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