acai berries?

[tonyaisntarobot]

Has anyone tried these?

I don't want to take any weird supplements or diet pills, but I have heard a lot of good things about them.

I'm just wondering if they are safe, and if they are effective.

Also, does anyone know if you could buy the actual berries, and not those pills?

I don't know much about these, but everywhere I turn, I hear "acai this" and "acai that."

please, someone enlighten me!

[Tigger]

I think you can buy the actual berries, but you'd have to search for a place that sells them. I've heard that they're very effective, and that they taste like red wine and chocolate.

[janez]

I'm wondering if anyone has had success with Acai Berry for weight loss? I've seen a lot of ads for it. Curious how it works.

[joel]

As far as weight loss goes Acai Berry is purely hype.

[janez]

Are you saying that based on actually having tried acai berry for weight loss or is that just your opinion? I'm want to hear from people who have actually tried it.

[joel]

Fair enough. No I have not used Acai Berry for weight loss, but in all fairness, no credible evidence exists that it actually works for weight loss. It is simply a good source of natural polyphenols which act as anti-oxidants.

We have written extensively here on the proper role of anti-oxidants in dealing with inflammation. You can take the same logic used to justify Acai Berry for weight loss and apply it to grape seed extract or vitamin c. In fact, you can take that idea to its logical extreme and take 10,000 plus ORAC units a day of anti-oxidants with products like BodyGlo, which is far more potent in terms of anti-oxidant power but is not touted for weight loss.