Acai Berry Scams

The exploding popularity of the Acai Berry has spawned hundreds of scammers jumping into the market to try and take advantage of the craze.  There are basically 2 types of scams:

1. “Free Trials” that aren’t really free.  You are unknowingly signed up for a subscription that charges you $80 or more per month. And it is nearly impossible to cancel ! Read more about free trial scams HERE
2. Watered down or diluted products. Some of the biggest online retailers like Monavie and nearly all supermarket brands use 10% acai juice mixed with other cheap juices. Their pills are loaded with preservatives to extend shelf life, and are NOT Freeze-dried Acai, which is the ONLY way to process the berries without destroying the antioxidents. Learn about quality Acai Berry products

The good news is, Acai Berry does work!

Back in the summer of 2008 I was just getting back to running to try and lose the 30 extra pounds I had gained after medical school, but it was really hurting my knees. Then a fellow doctor who is also a nutritionalist turned me on to Amazon Thunder Acai Juice. All the talk about antioxident this, omega 3 that, didn’t really mean much to me, but I trusted my friend and gave it a try. Well, what do you know – within a week, my joints did start to feel a LOT better. So, I kept taking the juice and running.

The more I learned the better it gets

Then I started reading about how Acai Berry is being used by all these hollywood celebrities as a DIET aid. Hmnn. I had noticed that the 2 ounces of juice I was taking every morning filled me up pretty good and I didn’t feel the need to eat breakfast before heading off to the hospital. I wanted to add some more acai to my diet, but with the hectic pace of work, the juice wasn’t practical. So I began looking for a source for the pills. I did A LOT of research and found a site with the best prices AND guaranteed return policy is
www.acaiberrysite.com ( Use my professional discount code to GET 20% OFF! Just enter ABD234 at checkout ).
I got some pills and started taking 2 of those in the afternoon. That helped keep me from getting hungry late in the day and hitting the junk food machine at work.

Kick it up a notch!

At this point I had a good supply, so I began taking 2 more pills late in the day, which helped me avoid late night snacking. Now the pounds were dropping! I lost nearly 10 pounds that month, and 12 the second month. I was pretty close to my target (what I weighed after med school) – That is when this picture was taken. I did gain a few pounds when I pigged out on vacation, but by the 4 month I got below my target weight and haven’t really struggled to stay there since then.

How about you?

If you need to get in shape, daily exercise is definately the number one thing on the list, but I also believe the Acai Berry juice and pills really did the trick for me. I am not running so much these days, but do walk at lunch when the schedule permits, and bike ride on days off. And every morning I still drink some Acai Juice, and take two pills twice a day with a BIG glass of water. And am careful, but not obsessive, about what I eat. That’s it.

People from the Amazon have been consuming the Acai Berry for years. It’s been used in dishes, drinks, shakes, and as a breakfast item to give you that boost and overall nutrition you need to get through the day. It’s powerful nutrients have massive benefits, and should be an obvious addition to everyone’s daily diet, even if your goal is not weight loss. A lot of what I learned about the benefits of Acai is from www.acaiberrysite.com, so you can go there if you want all the details, but I copied most of the important stuff below:

How/Why does the Acai Berry work?

Apparently, there are a lot of great things about the nutritional benefits of the berries, but the biggest is the antioxidants. Just look at the chart below if you don’t believe me!

In addition to the antioxidents, Açaí is naturally rich in:

• Omega fats (the good kind)
• amino acids
• electrolytes
• fiber
• protein
• vitamins A, B1 and E

Açaí pulp contains:”

• A remarkable concentration of antioxidants that help combat premature aging, with ten times more antioxidants than red grapes and ten to thirty times the anthocyanins of red wine.
• A synergy of monounsaturated (healthy) fats, dietary fiber and phytosterols, to help promote cardiovascular system and digestive tract health
• An almost perfect essential amino acid complex in conjunction with valuable trace minerals, vital to muscles. “

Benefits of Acai

I’ve touched on some of the properties of the Acai berry aid in promoting weight loss, helping with sexual dysfunction and even insomnia, but it also aids in fighting cancerous cells and diabetes. The powerful nutrients give you tremendous health benefits. That’s why it’s been so prominently featured on shows such as The Today Show, Oprah Winfrey show and many others.

It’s only recently that North America has started to catch on to the “Acai Berry Revolution”. We’ve been missing out on this delicious and nutritious fruit for many years, but now it’s here, and now we can take full advantage of it. Recently researchers at the University of Florida tested the attributes of açaí to discover it actually destroyed cultured leukemia cells!

This is not to say that it will cure cancer, as we cannot make such a bold claim, but it surely helps!

But the sad reality is that most people won’t tell you about products that work. Instead they’ll tell you about the acai berry scams because, quite frankly, the make marketers a lot more money. (It’s sad but true…)

…But it’s not all bad news! Thanks to people speaking out and fighting back many free trial offers are coming out that are exactly as advertised and not acai berry scams. They let you try the product for 30 days, let you cancel before that if you want, and deliver a great product.

The offer that I actually tried out myself and really enjoyed was, Acai Berry Optimum, it’s an older product but one that delivers on what it promises.

There will always be a few bad apples around and I’m sure, even in the future, these acai berry scams will still take innocent people’s money. But that’s the way things have always been – unfortunately.

The best thing you can possibly do is find a place where they give you the honest facts. Where they tell you the good and the bad and let you make the choice – without all the pressure.

…The Acai berry has helped thousands of people, including myself, lose weight and feel better. Whatever you do do not let these acai scams turn you off of Acai. But also don’t be so naive to think that these acai berry products that promise the world will perform miracles. You do still need to work to lose weight!

Don’t let the Acai berry scams get you. Spread the word about products that go against the grain and help us average Joe’s (and Janes).

Take care.