Saturday 12 June 2010

Healing Powers of Acai Berry

According to whatisthetrend.net/News/health, Acai berry is considered as one of the secret gems of the Amazon. Five years ago, these fruits are very hard to find in South America. Today, you can find it anywhere across the United States. You can see it in many health food stores because of its medicinal and health properties. It became very popular because of the powerful healing and health properties that are present in the fruit itself.

Some research on how to cure cancer led to the discovery of the berry. It is said that pure acai berry extract can help destroy cancer cells in your body.
When buying the fruit, one must remember to purchase only freeze dried and organic acai fruits. Freeze drying the fruit allows it to maintain all its nutritional values and high level of antioxidant without the risk of spoiling them. You must read the label first before buying the fruit. It must be freeze dried and organic to ensure high quality product.

What makes the acai fruit very popular?


The acai berry is completely different. Acai has been considered as one of the most nutritious and health inducing foods in the planet. The USDA reported that the acai fruit has the highest antioxidant activity on any food that has been reported. Antioxidant is very important in reducing cancer and avoiding heart disease. This berry also contains anthocyanins and flavonoids that are effective in neutralizing free radicals in the body.

A research was also conducted to know more about the acai fruit. The research concluded that the acai fruit is one of the most effective and the most powerful antioxidant supplement today.

Aside from it healing powers, acai fruit can also be used in healthy long term weight loss programs. It is packed with fatty acids, protein, and minerals. It can also be a dietary additive of the people who has diabetes, because it has low glycemic index making it completely safe for people with the disease.

There are other health benefits that you can get from the acai fruit. Some of these are increased energy, high metabolic rate, improved digestion, improved vision, slower age related decline, reduced risk of heart disease, and enhanced immunity, among others.


Facts about Losing Weight

Many people nowadays are very conscious with their figures. This is the reason why there are so many programs that promise to weight loss. However, not all programs work for all individuals. The differences in our genes and in our body build account for various programs that exists nowadays.

We must remember some essential facts so that the program that we will choose will have better chances of slimming us up. Here are some facts:
Some carbohydrates must be avoided; instead we must start a diet with fiber-rich foods. Many popular diets promotes high fiber and low carbohydrates foods. This diet is important in losing weight. When we get used to eating this kind of diet, we will get our desired weight in a short period.

Genes plays an important role on how fast our metabolism is and how fast it will burn down our calories. Individuals have unique metabolism. The amount of physical activity we do will burn down our calories intake. Therefore, less physical activities will result in less burned calories. There are ways to increase one’s metabolism, so it is not an excuse.

Avoid fats. Fats are always present in foods. There are good and bad fats. Good fats are used by the body for energy while bad fats must be avoided because they may cause heart diseases and hypertension.
Do not skip meals. Starving ourselves by skipping a meal is not advisable to lose weight. It is actually dangerous to your health. Its effect is that you will gain more weight instead of losing it because the fats which are necessary for energy will be stocked in your body when you skip meals. Eating small meals five times in a day is better than eating three heavy meals.

These are the important facts which we must be aware of. Now that we are informed about this, we can now start losing weight. One last parting shot: Remember: Without self-discipline, we may forget everything in this article; because any program will take away excess weights only if we know how to discipline ourselves.

Good luck.