10-04-2008, 01:27 PM
Every week there is a new cure all food, vitamin, etc. Those selling such products say all kinds of things but what something does in a test tube is afar cry from what they do in the real world. Go to pubmed (google it) and search for article and Acai or anything else for that matter and see if there are published scientific articles documenting actual benefits. For years, even scientists thought beta-carotene would be an amazing, anti-cancer vitamin because it was a strong antioxidant. Unfortunately multiple studies found smokers that took it were actually more likely to get cancer. Pubmed is a great resource.