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How to Buy Acai Berry Products

by Maxine Paine The acai berry is the new wonder food that everyone is taking to live healthier lives. With such a focus on the little fruit, figuring out where to buy acai berry products isnt easy. At times it feels like everybody is trying to run a scam on you which make it impossible to sift through everything being offered. Traditionally used as much for its hearts and leaves, the acai palm is now primarily harvested for the berrys potential benefits. These trees mature quickly and Continue reading

How an Acai Berry Diet Help You in Weight Loss?

Acai berry palm is a natural fruit that helps you to maintain the levels of minerals and vitamins in your body and helps you to reduce weight. Acai berry find a place in the diet procedure due to the above characteristics. Continue reading

Acai Fruit – Where does it Come From?

Acai Fruit – Where does it Come From? A healthy diet is knonwn to provide many benefits but those benefits can be maximized by consuming certain types of foods which are able to deliver higher levels of nutrients that can enhance the functions of our metabolic system. An exotic fruit which was recently discovered is now the center of attention of the health and beauty community, this fruit is called Acai.Where does it come from?Acai is a Palm member of the genus Euterpe and can be found in f Continue reading

The Trans Fat Ban – Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup Next?

On July 25, 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger made it official — California would be the first state to ban trans fat. Food providers have been given a year after which the law requires them to replace hydrogenated oils with healthier, naturally occurring oils such as soya, palm, and vegetable oils. The ban was prompted after the link between consumption of trans fat and diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and high levels of cholesterol was confirmed. A similar, but less publicized dietary villain Continue reading

Tiny Tree Shrew Is World’s Heaviest Drinker

Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew’s diet consists entirely of fermented palm nectar, meaning it basically lives on beer. Continue reading

Boozy tree shrews can drink humans under the table!

London, July 29 (ANI): A boozy night might leave you with the most excruciating hangover the next morning, but this doesn’t hold true for one of our distant mammalian cousins— the tree shrews. These pen-tailed tree shrews, related to the ancestors of primates, eat giant flower clusters of the stemless bertam palm in the rainforests of Malaysia. The palm’s floral nectar has sugars that ferment in the warm, moist environment, and produce alcohol with a concentration of 3.8 percent with a mean Continue reading