Acai Zone

The amino acid content of acai berry is perhaps the unsung hero of this popular little fruit. Much coverage is given and attention paid to the antioxidant properties of the acai berry but not a great deal to the other benefits that make it into one of the most potent super foods known to man. These other benefits include — but are most certainly not limited to — amino acids and essential omega fatty acids.

Amino acids are essential for human life: most importantly for us they play a number of roles in making our metabolism function better and more efficiently. Perhaps one of the most important roles that the amino acids play is in the fundamental building blocks of that most important of chemical substances: protein.

Whilst the acai berry is very strong in the area of antioxidants — an area that is very important to many aspects of our life — it is also extremely strong in these other areas, too, and it is this amalgam of benefits from nutritionally beneficial chemicals that make the wonderful little acai berry a super food in the truest sense of the word. No wonder it is so popular with so many people across the world.

Calories are strange things. Everyone says the word — it’s repeated with almost tedious regularity on TV and throughout the media — but few know what a calorie actually is. In actual fact a calorie is the amount of food energy that is available through the ingestation of the food. A food calories is actually a thousand ‘proper’ calories.

But ‘energy’ sounds good, doesn’t it? Don’t I want more, rather than less calories? In actual fact you need the right amount of calories. This is why a calorie controlled diet doesn’t need to — really, it shouldn’t otherwise you’d be ill — reduce the calorie intake too far; it just needs to be at the right amount. Too many calories, you see, and the body has a surplus. If this happens then the excess energy is stored as fat. Bad news.

If you’re looking for weight loss then your diet should contain slightly fewer calories than you’re using throughout the day: this way your body needs to break down the fat on your body to maintain your energy levels.

Food supplements like Acai contain very few calories but many nutrients and (as is the case with Acai) lots of antioxidants, which means you get more goodness for fewer calories. It’s a no-brainer, really!