Unearth The Healthy Superiority Of The Acai

By Doris D Reed

What if you could get a plethora of health benefits from one tiny little berry? Not only is this berry nutritious, loaded with antioxidants, essential fatty acids and amino acids but this berry is also delicious, purportedly tasting like berries dipped in dark chocolate or a cross between a blueberry, a raspberry and a grape.

The acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) berry is rather rare as it is only found in the Amazon rainforest, however, it is one of the healthiest nutritional discoveries of this century. It has more antioxidant capacity than almost any other food, it hosts a collaborative combination of healthy fats and an almost perfect essential amino acid complex.

Foods that are rich in antioxidants help protect our bodies from oxidation. While oxidation is crucial to life, it can still damage our cells which can lead to excessive inflammation which can lead to premature aging, many diseases and even obesity. Nature gives us natural antioxidants in healthy foods and the acai berry has some of the highest antioxidant levels found in nature.

Antioxidant qualities in foods are measured by what is called the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or ORAC. Acai berries have the highest ORAC of any other berry, with a 10 times higher ORAC than red grapes and twice as high as blueberries. Acai berry juice has 10 to 30 times the ORAC of red wine.

It is unlikely for a fruit but the acai berry also contains essential fatty acids. The acai berry is high in monounsaturated oleic acid, which is like that in olive oil. Oleic acid helps make the cell membranes more supple, thereby assisting all of the hormones, neurotransmitters and insulin receptors throughout our bodies work more effectively. Poor insulin receptivity has been linked to many diseases, most notably of course, diabetes, but also cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome and the relating tendencies caused from that.

The tiny, little acai berry is being proven to be a superfood, the term coined to describe a food with a high phytonutrient content that is known to confer health benefits due to the superior nutrition.

The acai berry is proving to be advantageous in weight loss, the prevention of age-related decline, and the prevention of diseases.

You can only enjoy these advantages from the acai berry by including the processed forms of the berry in your diet because the berry is exceptionally perishable. However you can enjoy the processed forms, including juices, supplement, extracts and more. - 30241

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