Acai Berry Fights Cancer & Disease

Based on acaiberrystudies.com acai berry can cure cancer and such diseases!

Free radicals are nasty little molecules that come from pollutants, pesticides, cigarette smoke, etc. They attack the cells in the body, cause diseases, and can even damage DNA. Antioxidants are the body’s fuel for strengthening cells and fighting off free radicals. As you know by now, the acai berry is jam packed with these powerful antioxidants.

A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits.

The Study showed extracts from acai (ah-SAH’-ee) berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 percent of leukemia cells tested. As stated in the University of Florida Study.

Historically, Brazilians have used acai berries to treat digestive disorders and skin conditions , but current marketing efforts by retail merchants and Internet businesses suggest acai products can help consumers lose weight, lower cholesterol and gain energy.

Dr. Nicholas Perricone listed the Acai berry as the 1 Super foods for age defying beauty. The acai berry is loaded with antioxidants, anthocyanins (approximately 20 times the amount in red wine), amino acids, essential omegas, fibers and proteins.

Acai berries ORAC value (which is a measure of its antioxidants properties), is higher than any other edible berry on the planet. The absolutely remarkable concentration of antioxidants also helps to defy aging and is a great source of dietary fiber.

Acai Berry as explained by Dr. Tim S. Hollingshead

Here's a video of Dr. Tim explaining the miracle of Acai Juice extract.

Acai Palm explained from top to root

Ok so you know now what an Acai berry is. A palm originated in Brazil bla bla bla. Now lets go into its parts, what are its use and so on.

Stem Heart of palm, the soft inner growing tip of some palms, is often consumed in salads.

Fruit The fruit, a small, round, black-purple drupe about 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter, similar in appearance and size to a grape but with less pulp, is produced in branched panicles of 700 to 900 fruits. Two crops of fruit are produced each year. The fruit has a single large seed about 0.25–0.40 inches (7–10 mm) in diameter. The exocarp of the ripe fruits is a deep purple color, or green, depending on the kind of açaí and its maturity. The mesocarp is pulpy and thin, with a consistent thickness of 1 mm or less. It surrounds the voluminous and hard endocarp which contains a seed with a diminutive embryo and abundant endosperm.[citation needed] The seed makes up about 80% of the fruit. The berries are harvested as food. In a study of three traditional Caboclo populations in the Amazon region of Brazil, açaí palm was described as the most important plant species because the fruit makes up such a major component of diet (up to 42% of the total food intake by weight) and is economically valuable in the region. The juice and pulp of açaí fruits (Euterpe oleracea) are used in various juice blends, smoothies, sodas, and other beverages. In northern Brazil, açaí is traditionally served in gourds called "cuias" with tapioca and, depending on the local preference, can be consumed either salty or sweet (sugar, rapadura and honey are known to be used in the mix).

What is Acai Berry anyways?

Lot of people especially the one's not familiar with acai berry always ask this. Even me when I started to be curious about it. Let's begin my journey to acai berry.

The açaí palm, also aqai (IPA: /asaˈi/) is a member of the genus Euterpe, which contains 8 species of palms native to tropical Central and South America, from Belize south to Brazil and Peru, growing mainly in floodplains and swamps.

The genus is named after the muse Euterpe of Greek mythology. Euterpe are tall, slender palms growing to 15–30 meters, with pinnate leaves up to 3 meters long. Many of the palms that were once in the genus Euterpe have been reclassified into the genus Prestoea (Riffle, 2003). The species Euterpe oleracea is usually called Açaí Palm, after the European derivation of the Tupian word ïwasa'i, 'fruit that cries or expels water'.

Acai palms are fast growing, and are cultivated for both their fruits and for their superior hearts of palm. Global demand for the fruit has expanded rapidly in recent years, and Acai is now cultivated for that purpose primarily. The closely related species Euterpe edulis (jucara) is now predominantly used for hearts of palm.