{"id":2943,"date":"2009-11-21T04:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2015-02-15T00:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T05:34:20","slug":"mens-health-acai-pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/mens-health-acai-pulp-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Health on Acai: “Pulp Fiction”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We haven’t visited Ye Olde Superfruit controversies in a while, so I thought I’d link to this recent Men’s Health article on acai by Bryan Smith.<\/a><\/p>\n

The upshot, say experts, is that no one fruit or berry, no matter what its ORAC score, fires an antioxidant silver bullet. “What I tell people is that you need to eat all these types of compounds, in all different colors,” says Navindra P. Seeram, Ph. D., who studies the bioactivity of berries and other plants at the University of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

“A\u00e7ai berries are wonderful, tasty, delightful fruit,” says Blumberg, “but I have never seen any report demonstrating that they are any better than apples and oranges and cranberries and blueberries and so on. Where is the evidence?”<\/p>\n

Given the undertow of controversy pulling on a\u00e7ai, it might seem surprising that we’re so willing to brave the current for more. But for psychologist Ditto, it’s an all-too-familiar phenomenon among American consumers.<\/p>\n

“There’s this long history of ‘just drink this and all your problems will be solved,’ ” he says. “That’s why these superfruit berries like a\u00e7ai are so successful. They’re sort of exotic, and they have the trappings of something that sounds good for you. It’s easy. It’s painless. So people tend to be kind of gullible \u2014 ‘Sure, I’ll give that a try.’ And they’ll spend a lot of money for it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouchie!\u00a0 It’s a long (3 page) article, but Smith did his homework… it’s a good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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