Archive for February, 2010

It’s possible. Just as long as you’ll agree that “impossible” is a mere mindset that contributed the fact that until now you can’t fit in your preferred jean size

These are the only tricks that are proven to work with no side effects:

1. Invest in an energy booster like Acai berry drinks and supplements that triple your energy levels from a faster metabolism it promotes. Faster metabolism accounts for faster weight loss, and that’s the only thing that you need to focus on. Just make sure it’s 100% natural and non GMO, and you’re good to go.

2. Eat. It’s okay to eat chocolates especially the dark ones high in antioxidants. Pizza is proven to stave off cancers because of beta-carotene. Ice cream, pastries and cakes are good energy boosters as long as you use the energy right away – they can make you run faster, pump up your adrenaline, and endure more muscle pain during strenuous physical activities. You need calories to be converted into higher energy levels to make you more productive and alert with the help of acai drinks or supplements. Medical studies prove that faster metabolism is a faster way to slim down – and not by starving yourself to death then indulging later on when temptation kicks in.

3. Do high impact exercises to efficiently burn all the calories. Take note that obesity occurs regardless of your genes, and the primary contributing factor of obesity is eating so much without a conscious effort to burn it all up. Mixed martial arts, marathon running, triathlon training, and boxing are great starters – most trainers take into consideration your lifestyle, physical and health conditions before gradually introducing you to high impact activities. If these are too strenuous, yoga, aerobics, and dancing are enjoyable ways to burn the massive calorie intake. Make sure you enjoy it so you can have an additional motivation to burn it all up – and finally fit into the dress size you’ve been aching to have.

Make Way for a Totally New and Innovative Cocktail Drinking Experience

NEW YORK, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ — ABSOLUT® VODKA has decided to open its 11th unique flavor in the ABSOLUT line, the ABSOLUT® BERRI ACAI.
It has a good juicy mix of acai, blueberry, and pomegranates with the sensual aroma and taste of berries. The exciting release is now available at restaurants, bars, and wine retailers across the country.
The company is ecstatic to see the market enjoy the new cocktail drink.

Continuing its tradition of introducing unique and innovative cocktail creations, ABSOLUT has always been consistent in introducing trends to wine and cocktail drinking. When nobody else thought of flavored vodka, it is the only company that introduced ABSOLUT® PEPPAR in 1986 and ABSOLUT® CITRON in 1988. Bloody Mary and Cosmopolitan have become so popular because of this company’s efforts.
ABSOLUT® BERRI ACAI is mixed with club soda – a perfect cocktail to lazy summers and winter clubbing. Similar to its fruity predecessors, ABSOLUT® BERRI ACAI has no sugar and no preservatives added. Ingredients are 100% natural.
The new flavor was launched perfectly in time for the Robert Verdi 2010 Fashion Week from February 12 which will continue to run until the 18th. Celebrating fashion with a healthy, innovative drinking experience could not just get any better.

Weight gain after giving birth is a lot more difficult to reverse while breastfeeding, the entire process of milking and producing milk triples the mother’s hunger as her body requires more nutrients to produce good quality milk.

With the presumption that your acai berry drink or supplement is all natural and GMO-free, it poses no real danger or threat to both the breastfeeding mother and the baby. Acai berry is primarily an anti-oxidant, which means it frees the body from free radicals that contributes to a lot of cancer types and aging. It has protein, dietary fiber, omega-6 and omega-9 fatty acids to protect the heart.

The good news about acai berry weight loss is that it increases energy levels and promotes faster metabolism – which a new nursing mother needs during the first weeks of having the baby. A newborn is very demanding to take care of – most of the time, the new mother endures sleepless nights to nurse and breastfeed the baby, she will need all the energy during the day despite the obvious lack of sleep, and this is where the acai berry can help provide extra energy when it is most needed.

Acai berry is a great way to lose weight. Postpartum or not, it improves digestion and metabolism, thereby generating more energy than without taking it. It is a great source of extra energy for a nursing mother who badly needs it to care for the new baby – and that’s on top of juggling daily household tasks and chores in between breaks. The nursing mother has to eat more because of her breastfeeding requirements. But with the acai berry, she doesn’t have to keep worrying that she will continue to accumulate fat since the large servings she consumes is properly and efficiently converted into the extra energy she needs.

Feb 02, 2010 – Acai berry is known as the super fruit as it brings about many health benefits – to improve heart health, aid perfectly in weight loss and detoxification, increase energy, stamina, and libido, improve and generate a youthful skin, help fight free radicals and cancer cells, strongly aid the immune system, and help a great deal in weight loss efforts. From different regions around the world, the popularity of the acai berry has taken any woman by storm. Even men would like to try the new dieting fad.

Acai berries are known to reduce weight significantly by increasing energy and stamina, which in turn enhances digestion and metabolism – where more calories are burnt and utilized for everyday activities that include exercise. Supplements and juices greatly help in exercise programs to successfully reduce weight and eliminate all the ugly fat a woman desperately hides all these years.

Because of such a huge popularity, shams have circulated around the internet to sell fake products. Experts on Certified Acai recommend the following tips when buying:

1.   Avoid companies that say they sell “FRESH”. Once picked from the tree it will only last within 24 hours. Obviously, that’s a huge impossibility since most products are processed to reach European and North American soil. Fresh acai berries are impossible to obtain not unless you live just beside the Amazon Rainforest.

2.   Take precautions on the content – not all acai berry products contain 2 vital elements, anthyocyanins and phyto-nutrients, and some products contain very little of these, but more of the fillers, extenders, or expanders that can be very dangerous when ingested.

3.   Purple is always the best – there’s a white and purple one to choose from, but always go for the purple as it contains more antioxidants than its white counterpart.

4.   Don’t go for normal pasteurization. Antioxidants are killed in this process because of very high heat. Go for the Flash pasteurization that will kill most bacteria but not the antioxidants.

5.   Acai berries are best frozen than dried to maintain and preserve the natural antioxidant strength.

Experts agree that buying from trusted and reliable sources are imperative since a consumer will always be informed about the real content and antioxidant levels of the acai product.

Weight Loss Benefits Exaggerated to Cure Obesity

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has given an F rating (the lowest rating BBB could ever provide) to the following companies marketing acai berry products: FWM Laboratories of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Hollywood, Florida; Advanced Wellness Research of Miami Beach, Florida; AcaiBurn, FX Supplements and SFL Nutrition. These acai companies were reportedly using exaggerated diet blogs that lured a huge number of people to avail of the free trials. Most of these sites have exaggerated claims that acai berry is the end-all cure to obesity.

Acai is marketed as vitamin supplements, juice powders, or health drinks and is not recognized by the medical community as a miracle super fruit intended to cure chronic illneses like diabetes and obesity. Medical researches however prove that it contains high levels of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, which are very important health supplements in helping weight loss programs and efforts.

The juices sell at about $40 each bottle.

Weight loss is actually possible with acai berry. As the super fruit greatly improves energy and stamina, so is digestion and metabolism are further improved – leading to more effective calorie burning and utilization. Fat is also metabolized more effectively with the help of acai berries – therefore all the fatty layers are thinned out.

So what really is the Acai berry?

Pronounced as a-sigh-EE, this grape-like fruit has gained popularity in the United States (which according to some media sources, such popularity has deprived Brazilians of the mere fruit they’ve relied on for generations) because of its reportedly numerous health benefits. Replacing the wheatgrass as the number 1 diet fad, it has been cultivated for commercial purposes – production, manufacture, and marketing of processed acai berry in the form of supplements and juice powders has now become a billion-dollar industry.

Exaggeration for Marketing Gains

Sadly, the health benefits become exaggerated to a huge extent, such that a lot of companies claimed (without the backing of a medical research) that it also improved fertility, penile length, even to the point of diabetes reversal. Studies (done for the purpose of marketing) show however that the fruit has improved the heart, energy, stamina, immune system, skin appearance, digestion and metabolism that it supported weight loss, sleep, and it eliminated free radicals more effectively than any other vitamin supplement. Studies done in the University of Florida showed that it helped battle cancer cells; about 86% of cancer cells responded to self-destruct when interacted with high concentrations of the acai berry. It’s not a confirmed end-all cure for cancer, though this study has made encouraging conclusions - to the exaggeration for profit gain.

Other Interesting Facts

In Brazil, it’s a popular flavoring mix in tequila and a good energy booster before jiu-jitsu warm-ups and competitions. Leaves of this plant are used as roof thatches, baskets, hats, table mats, even brooms, and the trunk wood is a good choice material for construction because of its high resistance to pests. The seeds are finely grounded as fertilizer and organic livestock food.

Conclusion: The Real Deal

The Acai berry is indeed a good supplement to consider, but not as the only end-all solution for obesity, heart ailments, cancer, fertility, and diabetes as other companies tend to claim and exaggerate. Weight loss is more effective if you take in acai berry juices and health drinks with lots of exercise and if you down a glass before a meal. Not only that the Acai berry is a healthy choice because it’s an excellent antioxidant and an organic energy booster; it brings improved digestion and metabolism as it may bring about significant weight loss if used properly, in the right dosages, in the recommended instructions, and if always complemented with a good deal of physical activity or exercise.

As you have noticed, the Acai Berry has gained major popularity through a lot of email, Facebook, and Twitter spams, even Youtube - then made its way to Oprah. What is it anyway and what’s the fuss all about?

Coined and termed as the “super food”, the Acai Berry has been studied and proven to give a lot of health benefits. It originated from the Amazon Rainforests of Brazil and has been a staple energy food for centuries before it reached American shores, and it’s gaining a lot of popularity because of the following health benefits (as medical studies can attest):

• Increases energy
• Improve metabolism and support weight loss
• Helps suppresses appetite
• Improves muscle tone
• Increases libido
• Reduces the impact of soreness and pain
• Improves stamina
• Encourages better sleep
• Helps develop smooth and youthful skin
• Aids in fighting cancer cells and all free radicals that harm the body
• Helps in protecting heart diseases and helps lower blood pressure

Given the good taste (a nice cross between chocolate and berries) and the very high nutritional content, it has been known to replace wheatgrass as a diet fad. It’s simply because of the good taste and the numerous health benefits compared to our old healthy wheatgrass.

Studies from the University of Florida have also shown that about 86% of cancer cells were self-destroyed when interacted with the Acai.

The only downside of the Acai berry is that, the raw fruit is only found and grown in the Amazon rainforests and plantation is not available across the United States. Once you pick it up from the tree, it spoils the same day. So the only option to get the numerous benefits of this super fruit is by way of supplements and health drinks.

How can acai berry products help me lose weight?
Acai berry products (with high concentrations of it) are very helpful in aiding weight loss programs. As it increases your stamina and energy, metabolism and digestion is greatly improved, that calories are efficiently burnt each day – including the fat that you’ve wanted to get rid off. Continued use of acai berry juices before meal time is strongly advised if you plan to use these for weight loss, and it’s a great compliment to your weight loss exercise regimes as it will help you shed more pounds.