New Study Shows the Acai Berry May Help Reduce Cholesterol - But How Does Acai Pull This Off?

There has been a great deal of debate surroundingdiet plus acai pulp. After 6 weeks they examined the
the Acai berry in the last few months. Does it work?rats and found they had much lower levels of total
Is it just a scam? What are the health benefits?cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol then the rats on the
Where are the clinical studies? That last question hashigh fat diet without Acai. The study found that
been a very valid one. While there are lots of storiessupplementing a high fat diet with Acai (at least in
about how someone took Acai and saw great healthrats) was able to bring down total cholesterol and
improvements - there have been very few clinicalLDL-cholesterol.
studies to back that up.How Did The Acai Work This Magic?
New Research in the Journal of NutritionThe study just looked at end results, it did not try to
In the December 2009 issue of the Journal ofexplain how Acai was able to achieve the end goals.
Nutrition a new study on Acai was reported. TheBut don't worry - that is why we are here - to
article - Diet supplementation with acai (Euterpeexplain things! Our theory goes likes this - Acai berry
oleracea Mart.) pulp improves biomarkers of oxidativeis a very powerful antioxidant. One of the most
stress and the serum lipid profile in rats - describes adangerous forms of cholesterol is something called
very interesting study that was done with Acai, aoxidized LDL-Cholesterol. Since Acai is an antioxidant,
high fat diet and rats.it may have been able to prevent the
In the study some rats were fed a high fat for 6LDL-Cholesterol in the high fat diet group from
weeks. To no ones surprise, the rats with a high fatoxidizing.
diet had higher levels of total cholesterol and higherAgain, we should state this is our own theory and it
levels of LDL-cholesterol (the bad cholesterol).will take further clinical studies to determine if our
Another groups of rats was given the same high fattheory is correct.