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Is acai berry stuff any good for losing weight ?

  • 01-08-2009 11:08pm
    #1
    super_metroid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭


    thanks


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  • #2
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    If you are looking to keep the weight off long term the NO!

    You may want to look at this
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055153853
    Especially no.4. which reads

    4.
    There will be zero-tolerance of any pro-ana topics, discussions of pharmaceutical weight-loss aids or crash dieting. This forum is to promote healthy and varied eating - not to advise you in how to drop a stone in a week.


    Also read the other stickies on this forum as well as the fitness forum to get a good idea of healthy long term sustainable weight loss.

    Good luck.


  • #3
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    It's a berry. It has a reasonably high proportion of anti-oxidants, but it's still a berry. It's also comes from Central and South America, so it's extremely expensive.

    It has no special properties to aid weight loss. If you want to add berries to your diet, you'd be better off with fresh Irish strawberries or raspberries, which have just as many anti-oxidants, but are a fraction of the price. Taste much better too.


  • #4
    corkcomp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭corkcomp


    EileenG wrote: »
    It's a berry. It has a reasonably high proportion of anti-oxidants, but it's still a berry. It's also comes from Central and South America, so it's extremely expensive.

    It has no special properties to aid weight loss. If you want to add berries to your diet, you'd be better off with fresh Irish strawberries or raspberries, which have just as many anti-oxidants, but are a fraction of the price. Taste much better too.

    +1 ..

    all berries are great if you are using them to replace other less healthy food but they are not going to help you to lose weight if you just add them to your existing diet while making no other changes ...


  • #5
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    Just another clever gimmick to trick people into spending too much of their money me thinks!


  • #6
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    EileenG wrote: »
    It has a reasonably high proportion of anti-oxidants,....

    you'd be better off with fresh Irish strawberries or raspberries, which have just as many anti-oxidants,
    A common trick I have seen the manufacturers saying is that these "superfoods" contain 10 times as much vitamins/"goodness" as apples/strawberries etc. BUT many of these overpriced "superfoods" are dried, so they are comparing dehydrated fruit with hydrated fruit which is 90% water!. So if you dry out the apples/strawberries etc and they can have about the same amounts in them. And the fact they taste horrible could be a bonus to them!, since then they get to trick people who have a "no pain, no gain" or "if it tastes nice it must be bad for me, tastes bad it must be good" mentality.

    The cheapest "superfood" I see mentioned a lot in threads is brocolli, which is cheap.


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