Acai Berries have fiber!
April 15, 2010 by CAOH
Filed under Acai (Euterpe oleracea), Diet & Weight Loss, Recent Posts
Healthy Fiber – “Eat more fiber”. Easy to say but hard to do? You have probably heard that before, but why is fiber so good for us? A high fiber diet (approximately 30-40g per day) reduces the risk of some chronic conditions. It is also a great way to help you feel full quickly and lose weight. Fiber comes from plant foods: whole grain cereals, vegetables, legumes, fruit, nuts and seeds, and is necessary for your gut to function properly. However, it is important to drink plenty of fluids in order for the fiber to swell and act as a sponge and regulate your gut movement.
Fiber acts like a sponge and soaks up sugar in the foods you eat, and releases it slowly, helping control blood sugar levels. It also reduces cholesterol absorption and excretion, therefore reducing blood cholesterol. But that's not all. Foods that are high in fiber expand in the stomach and intestine like a sponge, to help you feel full, and these foods tend to be those low in energy. These foods are said to have low energy density. If you compare to a bag of candy, there is no fiber in it and they are very high in energy, and candy does not act like a sponge and expand in your stomach to help you feel full and stop eating!
CAOH® Acai berries can help you bulk up your diet with fiber, and therefore decrease its energy density. This way you!ll be eating less energy for the same weight of food and therefore help in weight management. CAOH® organic freeze dried Acai has a fiber content of 1.35g (per 5g serve) compared with an apple (1.8g) or a weetbix (1.8g). In an Acai berry smoothie with 3 scoops of organic freeze dried All the information on acai berries. powder, you get around 4g of dietary fiber! The recommended intake is suggested to be 30g of fiber per day.
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Acai Berry provides rich Vitamins & Minerals
April 5, 2010 by CAOH
Filed under Acai (Euterpe oleracea), Recent Posts
Acai Berry is a rich source of Vitamins and Minerals. Vitamins and minerals are substances found in our foods that are needed in small quantities to support your body's growth and good health. We need these compounds everyday, for several processes in our bodies. In order to get them, we need to eat a variety of foods including fruits and vegetables, which are high in vitamins and minerals.
CAOH® Acai is a unique fruit, because it contains a wide variety of these essential vitamins and minerals. Acai is packed with vitamin E, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium!
Let's take a look at what CAOH® Acai offers:
Vitamin E
Acai is rich in vitamin E. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin which has antioxidant properties. Vitamin E protects our cells, especially their membranes from oxidation, or “destruction”. It also helps prevent the healthy unsaturated fats from being oxidized.
Iron
Iron is needed by our body!s red blood cells to carry oxygen and so it literally helps our cells to make energy. This is one of the reasons why Acai is so energetic! Like other plant derived iron, the iron in Acai berries is not absorbed very well in our bodies. One way to change this is to ensure you have Vitamin C with it. Vitamin C is found in citrus foods and juices. So by mixing CAOH® Acai berries with juice, it helps boost your iron intake!
Calcium
We need calcium for our bones and teeth to develop properly, for their maintenance, and for our muscles and heart to function. Calcium is deposited in our bones and teeth, making them strong. If we do not consume enough calcium in our diet, our bones become more and more porous, which means that a slight fall may break your bones! That is why it is so important to maintain an adequate calcium intake throughout our lives. The new Australian and New Zealand recommended Dietary Intake (RDI) states that we need 1000mg of Calcium per day. CAOH® organic freeze dried Acai provides you with 51.9mg with every 3 scoops.
Magnesium
Magnesium is a mineral needed for our bodies to produce energy. It also helps our bodies in regulating potassium and calcium. It is important in bone formation and muscles.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is another important mineral. It is part of our DNA, cell membranes and enzymes, is needed to maintain our bones and teeth strong, and in our body's energy metabolism.
Potassium
Potassium is also a mineral. it is invovled in muscle contraction, maintaining a proper fluid balance in our cells, and blood pressure control.
Next time you reach for your CAOH® Acai, keep in mind the guilt-free goodness inside that packet of fruit!
Acai Berry increases your Energy!
April 5, 2009 by admin
Filed under Acai (Euterpe oleracea), CAOH General Information, In The News, Sports Nutrition
Acai Berry provides Sustained Energy! What can you eat that will give you sustained energy throughout the day? CAOH® Acai? Yes!
What does this exotic fruit have that gives you sustained energy throughout the day? Carbohydrates and fiber. But not all carbohydrates give you sustained energy. Carbohydrates, when digested, release glucose, or sugar into our blood. The measure of the extent of the sugar rise caused after a food is eaten is called the Glycemic Index (or GI). The lower the GI of a food, the slower the food is digested and absorbed, producing a gradual rise in blood sugar levels. Foods such as white bread or jelly beans, when eaten, cause your blood sugar to rise very quickly. A blood sugar that is too high or too low is dangerous for our bodies. So when sugar rises, it stimulates the pancreas to release insulin into the blood. Insulin tells all our cells to open up their “gates” and let sugar in. This then causes the blood sugar level to drop again. When we consume foods that release sugar quickly, our bodies tend to release too much insulin.
Too much insulin means that too much sugar is taken up by our cells, and causes our sugar level to drop to under normal levels. This is the low that you usually feel after a sugar “rush”. It does not give you sustained energy and tends to make you feel tired and fatigued. CAOH® Acai berry pulp has a glycemic load of 0.5. The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to determine the impact of carbohydrate in our blood. It gives a fuller picture than GI alone, since it considers the amount of carbohydrate consumed. A GL of 10 or less is considered low, therefore helping control blood sugar levels.
CAOH® Acai has a glycemic load of 0.5, meaning that it provides sustained energy for today’ss busy lifestyle. The dietary fiber in Acai acts like a sponge, mixes with all the digestive juices in our bodies binding to the good we have eaten, and helps to slow down digestion. Instead of getting a sugar rush after a meal, the sugar is released slowly, giving you sustained energy! This also helps control appetite and delays hunger, which may help in a diet program.
Unlike most juices, most of the Acai berries kilo joules come not from sugar but from the healthy unsaturated omega-6 and omega-9 fats. This is one juice you can fell good about drinking! It will fill you up due to its fiber content and at the same time give you sustained energy, unlike other fruit juices! The Acai berry is usually mixed with apple juice, which has a low GI- to give you the same sustained energy as a CAOH® Acai smoothie. So next time that you are looking for a pick-me-up, look for CAOH® Acai at your local health food store.
Acai Berry Scams Are Ripping People Off
March 3, 2009 by Dr. Marcus Ettinger
Filed under Acai (Euterpe oleracea), Dr. Ettinger's Thoughts
I get 5-6 e-mails per day talking-up the virtues of acai as a weight-loss miracle. I hate to be the one to break the bad news to you, but acai has as much weight-loss capability as does red grape skins or blueberry skins. The ability of any of the products mentioned, when taken alone, to create an environment where weight just melts off is a bold-face lie. Meaning, if you continued with your normal way of life and just added acai, changed nothing else, NO weight would be lost. You may physically and/or mentally feel better, because acai is a potent antioxidant and antioxidants neutralize toxic free-radicals.
Below is an example of a acai berry scam that suggests people will lose between 22-30 pounds in 14 days. I have been taking acai powder for a year now and I still weigh the same (I eat great and I exercise 3-4 days a week. I am not taking it for weight-loss, I am taking acai strictly for its incredible antioxidant powers). I love acai and I sell a ton of it in my practice, I just don’t sell it for weight-loss. That would be highly unethical and not worth the money I would make.
Sincerely,
Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc
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