Here is a piece of classic Brazilian music from back in the 1960’s when the new samba sound hit the music scene in a big way, no doubt as a result of the huge hit song “The Girl From Ipanema” performed by the late saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian Singer Astrud Gilberto. Here is Gilberto with another great classic from that era. We’re going to post a lot more musical gems from Brazil including some of great contemporary stuff too. Suggestions and ideas are always welcome. Let us know your favorites in the comments section!

Watch Resveratrol story on 60 Minutes | Does Resveratrol Increase the Risk for Breast Cancer?

For those who haven’t followed the evolving news on resveratrol over the past few years, it is an interesting story. Here is the video from the 60 Minutes TV show on January 25, 2009 for some background.

We’re going to do a lot more reporting on the resveratrol subject in the future but a quick word of caution first. To us, it looks way too early to run out and start taking this substance in supplement form. There are many unresolved issues. Here are a few questions:

1) Which kind of resveratrol to take?
2) What dosage is correct?
3) Can too high a dosage do damage?
4) Which products are reliable?
5) Some products have failed to live up to there stated ingredients. Which ones?
6) Resveratrol acts like estrogen in some ways. Does this mean it could increase the risk of breast cancer and other cancers.

Come back for more information on this subject. In the meantime, let us hear from you in your blog comments.
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January has been a busy month for us. We’ve had new visitors and new customers to our website from all over the world and emails from folks in a number of these countries too.

So thanks to our new visitors from:
Canada
Netherlands
Finland
Japan
Australia
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Kuwait
Germany
Malaysia
Mexico
South Africa
Great Britain
India
Singapore
Iceland
Iran
United Arab Emirates
Turkey
Philippines
Norway
France
and others….

Hope to hear from more of you and…keep coming back!

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Thanks again.

We have received a lot of questions about the product called MonaVie.

The MonaVie is a blend of at least 18 different ingredients. So it is not 100% acai…far from it. So it is not appropriate to compare it to other products that contain mostly pure acai berry and little else in the way of additional ingredients.

Although they list acai as the first ingredient, the actual amount of acai in the product could be very small, but we don’t know because unfortunately, the company does not disclose how much acai is in their product. In addition, the product is very expensive.

So MonaVie is not a product that fits our criteria for potency, purity and price.

The other issue is that the product is part of a multi-level sales plan. Products that are part of multi-level sales plans often are very expensive, so that the company can afford to pay many levels of sales commissions for the muli-level sales agents.

Here is a story from a recent Newsweek Magazine about the Monavie product: Newsweek Magazine article about MonaVie.

For purity, potency, and price the Perfect Acai is far and away our top choice among all the various products.

In Brazil, they don’t eat the seed. They make jewelry out of it or feed it to pigs or other livestock.

When I see an acai product that uses the seed or pit, which is sometimes listed in the ingredients as “endocarp”, I avoid that product.

In my opinion including the seed is just a way of increasing a company’s profit margin at the expense of the consumer. There is no significant nutritional value to the seed that I am aware of and it no doubt tastes awful, unless it is disguised with other flavors.

Perfect Acai Revive

The company that makes our favorite product Perfect Acai recently introduced an exciting new product called “Perfect Acai Revive.”

This new product combines the extraordinary nutritional benefits of 100% pure organic acai berry with two energy boosting herbs in one supplement.

Perfect Acai Revive™ combines pure organic freeze dried acai powder with the Russian herb “Rhogiola Rosea” and the ancient Chinese herb “Cordyceps Sinensis.”

Rhodiola Rosea

Rhogiola Rosea was used by Soviet Olympic athletes to build stamina and endurance and by Soviet astronauts while traveling in space. Rhodiola Rosea has also been said to reduce stress.

Cordyceps Sinensis

Cordyceps Sinensis is an ancient Chinese herb that was used by Chinese Olympic athletes. This herb was used to boost energy and improve sexual function and has been popular with endurance athletes.

How To Order Perfect Acai Revive

To get information about this new product follow the links on this website/blog for Perfect Acai and you will find it there. Just follow the prompts to get to the Perfect Acai ordering page and once there, look for a drop down menu, or other appropriate links for Perfect Acai Revive.

About Perfect Acai

Regarding the regular Perfect Acai capsules this product is the best buy and highest quality product that we have found.

The Perfect Acai costs about half the price of comparable competitors when buying 3 bottles. Each bottle contains 120 capsules at 500mg each per bottle while most competitors charge the same amount for only 60 capsules. When buying 4 bottles, there is free shipping if being shipped to the US. This is a very high quality acai product that contains only pure organic freeze dried acai, with no filler added in the capsules.

Avoid Free Acai Berry Offers

We also like to keep reminding folks to avoid free acai berry offers. Go to the blog and click on Consumer Alerts for a number of posts on this issue. Be sure to check out the post titled “The Truth About Free Acai Berry Offers.”

Happy Holidays!

It is well know by now that the acai berry is one of the most nutritious fruits on the planet. But in order to take full advantage of the nutritional benefits of this powerful fruit a little background information would help.

An excellent source of information on how to separate the best products from the lesser products is our website AcaiBerry-Products.com.

But here are some quick points:

Tip #1 The fruit from the acai palm contains healthy fats, protein and fiber. If you don’t see fats, protein and fiber on the ingredients label, the product does not contain the whole edible portion of the fruit. Plus you should look for products that contain the whole fruit (without the seed).

Tip #2 Many so-called acai products, especially the juices, are blends of many different fruits and you never really know how much acai is in the products. A good example of this is the MonaVie product. MonaVie does not disclose how much acai is actually in their product. They also indicate that their product is a juice blend of 18 or more different juices. It may well be a good product and it may have lots of excellent nutrients but…the MonaVie is certainly not a pure acai berry product. It’s expensive too, which is always the case with products sold by multilevel sales companies.

Our favorite acai berry product ‘Perfect Acai’ uses 100% pure organic freeze dried acai powder in its capsules with no fillers in the capsules and no carrying agents used in the filling of the capsules. This makes it a standout among all other acai products. Plus the price is good making it our best bet over all other acai berry products. By ordering 3 bottles you get a $10 savings per bottle and by ordering 4 bottles you get free shipping.

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Special Savings on Perfect Acai

Order Perfect Acai Buy 3 Save $10 Per Bottle Buy 4 Get Free Shipping In US | PLUS get Additional 10% Discount For Limited Time

Our favorite product Perfect Acai is a acai supplement in capsule form made of pure organic freeze-dried acai berry powder. Not only is it the highest quality acai supplement available, its priced best of all the comparable products.

Buy 3 Save $10 Per Bottle | Buy 4 and Save More | Plus Save 10% More for Next Few Days

If you buy three (3) bottles of Perfect Acai you save $10 per bottle. If you buy four (4) bottles you get free shipping in the U.S.

Perfect Acai Is Always A Great Value

Perfect Acai contains 120 capsules of 500 mg of acai berry while most comparable competitors sell 60 capsules for about the same price.

Limited Time Additional 10% Discount

And for a limited time only due to slightly delayed shipments caused by unusually heavy demand you can get an additional 10% discount. Please note this discount will only be available until the company gets caught up on ll back orders which should be any day now.

Thanks for visiting this blog!

Free Acai Berry Offer Scam

There are many problems with the Free Acai Berry offers that we all see advertisements for all over the search engines and in our email boxes as spam. Remember, this problem is not just with acai berry free offers, but other free offers as well.

Many of these free offers are problematic for a number of reasons;

How The Free Acai Berry Scam Works

Here is what happens:

1) person sees an ad for free product.
2) person clicks on ad to get the free product.
3) person is required to enter credit card information to pay for shipping charges
4) after a few weeks, person starts getting unexpected shipments for products they did not specifically order.
5) product is very expensive, in fact by many standards the product is grossly overpriced.
6) when the person tries to cancel future orders it is almost impossible to get through on the customer service number or to find an email address.

The companies doing this usually claim that they disclosed the so called “auto-shipments” but the problem is that they really did not. A “customer” would have to had found the link for “terms” or “terms and conditions” on the website to find out these messy little details. The problem is that most people don’t read this “fine print”.

Maybe they are not all scams. Maybe there is a legitimate offer on the internet that offers a free bottle of acai berry, but as of now, we have not found it.

Avoid Free Acai Berry Offers

So do yourself a favor and just steer clear of free offers because they are just not free.

This is not a new problem. THE PROBLEM DOES NOT JUST INVOLVE ACAI BERRY. It involves many different products. Credit card companies and the US Federal Trade Commission get complaints about this kind of thing all the time, for many different kinds of products.

Also, please note that our company does not do business like this. We never would. None of the companies we do business with operates in this manner. If they did, we would drop them immediately. We have been getting so many emails from people victimized by these companies promoting bogus free offers that we feel we need to do all we can to alert consumers. We have been doing our part to warn consumers about these acai berry scams for the past number of months now.

The FTC Just Busted A Similar Free Offer Scam

Read this from the Federal Trade commission about a very similar scam and you will see that the similarities Free Offer Scam

Remember this. And please excuse the clichés since we have all heard them before. Folks…

“There is no free lunch”.
“You don’t get something for nothing”
“If it looks too good to be true, it is”

And so on… all true and worth remembering.

Everybody wants a freebie and the scam artists know this. A group of enterprising and unethical internet marketers are running email marketing campaigns in the form of email blasts to your inbox (aka spam) and Pay-Per-Click internet ad campaigns on the major search engines to tap into your desire to get something for free. Some of them are listed in the regular rankings too. The crooks are taking advantage of human nature. We all want a bargain. They know this. They take advantage of this.

It’s not the first time this kind of ripoff has been done and acai berry is not the first product that the crooks have latched onto. Fact is, whenever a new product gets popular, these type of things start.

On Google the Pay Per Click ads are called “sponsored links” and appear at the top of the page and along the right hand side of the page. On Yahoo they are called “sponsored results” and they also appear at the top and along the right side of the page. Note: I am not saying that all companies that advertise in these sections are bad, but a lot of them are so you need to know what to look out for.

Many Free Bottle Offers Are Credit Card Scams

Once again, most of these so-called “free offer” deals take your credit card info in order for you to order your “free” bottle or “free” trial. Then anywhere from 15 to 31 days later they start billing your credit card for a grossly overpriced and usually grossly inferior product. Often they advertise their products as “weight loss” products or “cleanse” products. If you have to give your credit card information for a “free” product, then it probably is not free. If the company offering the “free” product wants your credit card just to charge for shipping, chances are you are going to pay for a lot more than just shipping.

Usually the companies offering these free offers that quickly turn into monthly automatic shipments of products do not clearly disclose what they are doing. Generally they disclose this information in the fine print which may be labeled “Terms” or “Terms and Conditions,” you know, the stuff nobody reads.

So Buyer Beware:

Avoid Free Bottle Offers
Avoid Free Trial Offers
Avoid Free “Cleanse” Offers
Avoid Free Weight Loss Offers

So folks, use your common sense and avoid these so-called “free offers”. They are in no way worth the aggravation it takes to get them cancelled. It is also probably a good idea to avoid buying anything on so-called “auto-ship.” That’s where a company automatically ships you products every month even though you don’t specifically request them. It is usually VERY DIFFICULT to get these “auto-shipments” cancelled.

Here Is An Ethical Acai Berry Company That You Can Trust

Enough bad stuff…Here is some good stuff:

Follow these links to get to acai berry companies that…
1) do NOT “autoship” products
2) do NOT offer free bottles or free trials
3) only ship products when you ask for them
4) do not hype products or make misrepresentations about weight loss

Perfect Acai vs. MonaVie

People often ask “which one is better and what’s the difference between the two products?”

And they ask which one is a best way to get the full nutritional benefit of the acai berry. I really don’t like to knock products but let me say this. On the main part of our website AcaiBerry-Products.com there is an informative discussion of what to look for when choosing an acai product…in other words there is an excellent list of criteria for selecting the purest and most potent acai berry products.

The product Perfect Acai is made up of 100% pure organic high quality freeze-dried acai. The product MonaVie is a juice blend of many different ingredients including acai. So one is a pure acai berry product and the other is a blend with multiple ingredients.

Pure organic freeze dried acai is the closest most of will get to enjoying the benefits of fresh acai berry that was just picked from an acai palm tree in the Amazon rainforest. Additionally, looking at the very few comparable competitors to the product Perfect Acai, the Perfect Acai is priced the best by far.

The MonaVie on the other hand may be a good product and may taste good but it is not pure acai product so it is not a proper comparison. MonaVie is a juice blend of 18 or more ingredients. And the company does not disclose how much acai is actually in their product. So while it may be a good product and a tasty product we are not going to compare the two for the reasons stated above.

The product Perfect Acai is the very best value that I have found among pure acai products. The price of Perfect Acai Capsules is about half the price of their comparable competitors when you buy 3 bottles (each bottle has 120 capsules at 500mg per capsule) at a time. And if buy 4 bottles, there is no shipping charge so the savings are even greater.

For purity, potency, and price the Perfect Acai product is far and away our very best choice among to 100% acai berry products.