{"id":3884,"date":"2010-08-28T02:34:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T00:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:30:07","slug":"acai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/acai\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much For All That Acai&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, I thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/acai-berry-weight-loss-attracts-mainstream-attention-finally\/\" target=\"_blank\">acai was supposed to magically help people lose weight<\/a>?!\u00a0 If this were true, you&#8217;d think the Brazilians &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2004\/apr\/18\/foodanddrink.features12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who slurp up\u00a0the stuff fresh<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; would be the leanest people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently not&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/38881811\/ns\/health-diet_and_nutrition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly half of adult Brazilians are overweight and about 15 percent are obese, Brazil&#8217;s IBGE social statistics agency said on Friday, citing the results of a national study carried out with the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Among 20- to 24-year-olds, the percentage of men who were overweight jumped to 50.1 percent from 18.5 percent in a survey carried out in 1974, while the percentage of overweight women rose to 48 percent from 28.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a situation of absolute red alert,&#8221; Brazil&#8217;s Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao told reporters in beach-side Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we stay at this pace, in 10 years we will have two-third of the population overweight (or obese), as has happened in the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Brazilians still haven&#8217;t caught up with Americans yet, but they&#8217;re certainly on the right, errr&#8230; wrong track.<\/p>\n<p>Need I say more? Superfruits don&#8217;t make weight loss miracles happen, unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, I thought that acai was supposed to magically help people lose weight?!\u00a0 If this were true, you&#8217;d think the Brazilians &#8211; who slurp up\u00a0the stuff fresh\u00a0&#8211; would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,24,28],"tags":[56,60,1409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9153,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/9153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}