Posts Tagged ‘reviews’

Xeela Fitness Review: Are These Supplements Worth It?

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
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Xeela has been hailed as a new name in the fitness world for less than a year. What does Xeela offer that others don’t? What does it mean for those who want to lead healthier lives? What we need is an honest Xeela Fitness review to get informed.

Read on to find out all about what Xeela is and what it means for your future.

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Achieve Your Fitness Goals with Pleasanton Crossfit

Monday, July 15th, 2019

At Project Swole, every once in a while we like to review equipment, gyms, supplements, and other fitness items or events that we’ve had a chance to try. Today we would like to introduce you to Pleasanton CrossFit, a place where you can get excellent care and guidance from expert-level fitness coaches. Here is a review from one of our exclusive ghostwriters who has recently had a chance to train at the facility.

Why Should You Consider Training at CrossFit?

We all know that there is no shortcut to a physically fit body and healthier you. We have to commit to improving physical activity, eating habits, and make healthy lifestyle changes.

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For most people, dieting is a lot easier to do than going to the gym or taking up physical activity. When we diet, we only need to think about what we put into our body. We can accomplish this in private without letting anyone else know. This practice lacks accountability.

So how can you become more accountable for your nutrition and fitness habits?

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Four Certified Facts About Creatine

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Creatine and Beta Alanine

Overview: What is creatine and how does it work?

Creatine is an organic compound primarily found in vertebrates, which is an overwhelming biological division that comprises close to 70,000 species, humans included. The reason why creatine is mostly found in these animals is because the substance is crucial to the recycling of energy at a molecular level, especially when it comes to muscle and brain tissue. Despite the fact that we have known about the compound’s beneficial effect on physical performance for over a century, creatine only came to our attention in the 1990s, when several Olympic medallists disclosed that creatine loading was part of their dietary protocol.

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Choosing the Best Supplements for Bodybuilding

Friday, October 26th, 2018
Lose Fat, Stay Healthy

When it comes to bodybuilding and improving your physique there are many things that can help you. Your workouts and diet are obviously a big part of this but another thing that can help is the right supplements. There are many different supplements you can choose from these days if you want to build muscle and lose fat – all you need to do is determine the best ones for you so you can achieve the strong and healthy body you have always wanted. For instance, one well known and popular supplement is beta-alanine, a non-proteinogenic amino acid that’s naturally produced in the body. However, there are many versions of this supplement from many manufacturers so it’s hard to determine which is the best.

It’s vital to read and learn about these supplements to be well informed about what you need. Whether you are looking for vitamins, testosterone boosters, protein supplements, or HGH, you need to be sure you make the right choices.  Choosing the right supplements is vital for many reasons.

This is not just in terms of achieving the results you want when it comes to your body but also ensuring you don’t adversely affect your health into the bargain. For many people, the cost is important because they want to spend as little as possible but when it comes to supplements there are many other factors you have to consider in addition to the cost.

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What You Need to Know About LA Fitness

Sunday, July 15th, 2018

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If you are tired of postponing your workout or finding reasons to skip the gym, you should think about how important it is for you to look good and stay healthy. Even if it’s not easy to find the right gym that goes hand in hand with your busy schedule, you have to make an effort in order to stay in shape. You want to look for a gym local to your home or work, that has adequate equipment, lenient rules, helpful staff, and workable operating hours.  (more…)

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Flexoplex Review: The #1 Choice to Relieve Joint Pain!?

Thursday, February 1st, 2018

Just Look at What Flexoplex Will Do for You!

Usually, many people suffer in silence. Perhaps, like Susan, you have found long distance walking a pain rather than pleasure or like Winks, you feel like your joint is going to go off the next minute, worry no more. Flexoplex supplement has been formulated just for you. This strong and natural joint health product will get rid of the inflammations in your bones as a precursor to relieving you of all of the discomforts in your bones and joints.

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Staying Motivated to Lose Weight with P90X

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Order P90XWith so many at-home cookie-cutter workout routines out there, I figured it would be a great idea to discuss one of the best: P90X. After all, P90X is pretty cheap compared to paying a gym membership and hiring a personal trainer.

Will P90X turn you into a bodybuilder, a powerlifter, an Olympic gymnast, a marathon runner, or a sport-specific athlete? Oh, hell no!

Could P90X possibly get you in the best shape of your life with a minimal initial investment? Could P90X strengthen your body, improve your cardiovascular fitness, help heal nagging injuries, and dial in your 6-pack abs for summer? Oh, hell yes!

Click here to check out all of the Project Swole P90X articles, tips, tricks, hints, and reviews.

How to Lose Weight with P90X

PX90 suggests that a ninety-day weight loss regime jumped into with both feet will start you on your weight loss journey. The program implies that shocking yourself with the first 30 days of their system will get your metabolism going, and because of the results you see, you will be gung-ho for the rest of their ninety-day program.

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What is the P90X Home Workout System?

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Order P90XWith so many at-home cookie-cutter workout routines out there, I figured it would be a great idea to discuss one of the best: P90X. After all, P90X is pretty cheap compared to paying a gym membership and hiring a personal trainer.

Will P90X turn you into a bodybuilder, a powerlifter, an Olympic gymnast, a marathon runner, or a sport-specific athlete? Oh, hell no!

Could P90X possibly get you in the best shape of your life with a minimal initial investment? Could P90X strengthen your body, improve your cardiovascular fitness, help heal nagging injuries, and dial in your 6-pack abs for summer? Oh, hell yes!

Click here to check out all of the Project Swole P90X articles, tips, tricks, hints, and reviews.

What is P90X?

You may already of heard of P90X (other names: Power 90X, X90 Workout, and PX90) either by way of TV and radio commercials or word of mouth. And you may be intrigued by the numerous reports of success enjoyed by people who have shed unwanted pounds, and by the images of people who have used the P90X program to work their way to a toned and attractive physique.

The collection of articles I will be presenting delves into the potential of the P90X program and whatit has to offer you as an individual. I consider it my job to provide sufficient information in this series to answer any and all questions you might have about P90X.
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Lynx Performance Grips

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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I lift heavy.

Well, heavy for me at least.

Sometimes my grip strength doesn’t always allow me to lift a maximal weight for certain exercises. Typically this might happen with an exercise where I try to use more than my max deadlift or if I’m hauling around 150 lb dumbbells.

In these circumstances, I have to employ one of the following third party tools to help me hold onto the bar.

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Acai Berry the New Weight Loss Superfood

Friday, August 10th, 2007


In recent years the acai berry diet has quickly become the most popular diet in the world, while the acai berry itself has become the most popular antioxidant diet supplement in world.

Combined with a colon cleanser, a sensible diet, and a moderate exercise routine, the acai berry can help you lose fat faster than you ever thought possible, and its antioxidant health properties will keep you feeling youthful and energized every day.
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  • With just Acai Pills you can lose up to 15 pounds in just 30 days.
  • Combine Acai with a Colon Cleanser to lose an additional 5-10 pounds.
  • Combine Acai with the diet and fitness routines I’ve outlined below and the fat will simply melt off you.

Navigating the Acai Berry Diet Review

What Are Acai Berries?

About Antioxidants

The ORAC Rating

Acai Berry Diet Benefits

Why Use Acai?

Weight Loss Testimonials

Step 1: Acai and Weight Loss

Step 2: Colon Cleansing

Step 3 (Optional): Fat Loss Workout Routines

Step 4 (Optional): The Intermittent Fasting Diet

Order a Free Trial or Full Supply

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Acai Berries?

Acai Berries

Acai berries – acai is pronounced ‘a-sigh-ee’ – are small, black, and round, and they resemble small grapes. There is not much acai fruit on each individual berry. Rather, each acai berry has a large seed that is surrounded by a small amount of pulp.

Harvesting. When harvesting the acai berries, harvesters must remove the pulp from the outside of the berry, and process it immediately into an acai product or flash freeze it for shipping to a manufacturing facility. The acai fruit will spoil if left unprocessed for several days.

Acai Products. The fruit from the acai berry is often used in a variety of dietary supplements, healthy foods, ice cream, sorbet, juices, and other common grocery store items. Best of all, the acai berry is the most important food used with the acai berry diet. With the highest antioxidant concentration of any known food, the acai berry is now known as the most important superfood for a maintaining proper health.

Bad Products. Some common commerical acai products, like Monavie and Amazon Thunder are just juices, which really don’t have a place in the acai berry diet. Juice is, after all, full of sugars and other un-diet-like ingredients. Some of the products like Leanspa Acai, Acai Burn, and Acai Plus are now known as scams. They get you to buy into a 6 month supply, send you an initial shipment, then take the rest of your money and run.

Good Products. One of the best products I’ve had a chance to use is Acai Berry Select, which contains is 100% pure concentrated acai – a complete antioxidant, weight loss powerhouse – plus high effective energy boosters and other great thermogenic ingredients.

Another awesome product is Pure Raspberry Ketone. This has a highly potent combination of 5 popular superfoods:

  • Acai Berry
  • Pomegranate
  • Green Tea
  • African Mango
  • Raspberry Ketone

African Mango and Raspberry Ketone are both fairly new to the super-food world. African Mango extract is really high in antioxidants, while Raspberry Ketone is an effective FDA approved fat loss supplement.

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Sambazon acai juice is the best juice product I’ve tried, but it does contain extra calories so is not the best product for an acai berry diet.

The Health Benefits of Antioxidants

I am psyched because I am always talking about the benefits of antioxidants, and in particular how acai is currently the food with the highest antioxidant concentration in the world. The ORAC rating for acai beats out even that of pomegranate and blueberries!

The antioxidant benefits of the acai berry rival several other superfoods, including:

  • blueberries
  • goji berries
  • mangosteen
  • Amazon mango
  • pomegranate
  • strawberries
  • and pretty much any vegetable you can think of

The super healthy vitamin, mineral, and macronutrient concentrations in acai berries blend together in your diet and in your body, to exert a powerful effect on your mind, body, health and overall well-being. For those of us looking for protection from cancer, weight loss, help with diabetes, better cardiovascular health, or just to look and feel healthy, should consider giving the acai berry a try. Learn more about the history of the acai berry itself on WikiPedia.

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Oxygen Radical Absorbence Capacity (ORAC)

Oxygen Radical Absorbence Capacity, or ORAC, is the measurement of the antioxidant concentration of individual foods. The foods that have a higher ORAC value have a higher concentration of antioxidants, which means they are more effective at fighting the cellular damage caused by free-radicals. We want to load our diet up on fruits and vegetables if we wants to fight skin wrinkles, cancer, and various other diseases associated with toxins and aging.

As you can see by the chart below, the acai berry’s powerful 18,400 ORAC rating is the highest of any known fruit or vegetable. As a side note, I should let you know that the Maqui berry has taken over the ORAC crown, but acai berries are still better for weight loss.

When used in amounts up to 1000 mg a day, acai berry supplements will help to decrease the cell oxidization damage caused by free radicals pretty significantly, even when used for just 14 days. Of course, long term use is recommended since the antioxoidant benefits will cease a couple days after you stop using acai. Even WebMD agrees that the acai berry diet is the healthiest nutrition plan to follow for life.

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Acai Berry Diet Benefits

Most people who use the acai berry diet report the following healthy effects:

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  • Increased weight loss
  • Higher energy levels
  • Faster recovery from workouts
  • Faster recovery from injury
  • More strength and stamina
  • Digestive function improved
  • Full body cleansing
  • Better focus and mental clarity
  • Increased libido
  • Better sexual performance
  • Healthier immune system
  • Younger looking skin
  • Circulation is improved
  • Sleep patterns regulated
  • Better clarity of vision

Other known benefits of the acai berry diet:

  • Important vitamins and minerals
  • Decreased inflammation
  • High in fiber
  • Fights cancerous cells
  • Healthier heart function
  • Helps prevent atherosclerosis
  • Helps control diabetes
  • Anti-aging
  • Normalizes cholesterol levels
  • Helps control blood sugar
  • Helps regulate blood pressure

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Why Use Acai Berry Supplements?

In our generation, the world is full of chemicals, phytoestrogens, pesticides, herbicides, nuclear waste, and other harmful environmental toxins. Personally, I enjoy the acai berry diet because it allows me to maintain a healthy low body fat, and my antioxidant intake is sky-high. Even at age 33 I feel like I am still 21!

Anyone specifically looking to combat the effects of aging, recover from injury, and lose excess bodyfat should definitely looking into using the acai berry, temporarily if not indefinitely.

Other reasons you should try the acai berry diet:

  • again, if you need to lose body fat, and quick!
  • combat the pain and suffering caused by fibromyalgia
  • you are looking for better control over diabetes
  • you live with the daily strain of arthritis
  • if you have a desire to feel and look years younger
  • sexual dysfunction is getting the best of you
  • you have gastrointestinal or digestive problems
  • rehabbing and/or healing from a recent injury

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Acai Berry Diet Testimonials

Acai Berry Diet Testimonials
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Step 1: Speed Up Weight Loss With Acai

I wrote earlier that acai berry supplements are a great weight loss aid, but I didn’t get into all the details. Well, here are the specific details about why the acai berry is so helpful when you are trying to lose fat.

The acai’s natural concentration of fiber, fatty acids (including essential fatty acids – EFAs), raw amino acids, and phytosterols work in unison to assist your body with burning fat more efficiently. All of these nutrients will help your digestive system to process food faster and more efficiently, which will help your body to burn its stored fat quicker than diet and exercise alone.

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Dietary Fiber

85% of the carbohydrate content of acai is dietary fiber. As we all know, fiber helps your body to move food through the digestive tract. Excess food and calories are therefore eliminated quickly, rather than being absorbed into the bloodstream and stored away as excess adipose tissue (fat mass).

A high fiber diet is also known to reduce hunger, curb the appetite, and eliminate cravings. Make sure your regular diet is full of healthy fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; then supplement with acai berry every morning and you’ll be virtually guaranteed to lose weight and maintain regular bowel movements.

Fatty Acid Content

56.2% of the fat content of acai is oleic acid, which in simple terms, is olive oil. Know how nutritionists are always telling us to use olive oil in our recipes because it’s so healthy? Well there you go! Supplementing with acai berry is like supplementing with olive oil. But that’s not the best part…

Additionally, your body is unable to produce Omega 3 or Omega 6 essential fatty acids (EFAs) naturally, which means you’ll have to make it a point to supplement with fish oil or eat foods with high concentrations of those EFAs. Conveniently, these EFAs are plentiful in acai berries, making up the additional 43.8% of fat. That means you can say supplementing with acai berry is like supplementing with fish oil!

Just some of the benefits of supplementing with EFAs include:

  • improvements in the cardiovascular and circulatory systems
  • reduction in the chance of developing blood clots
  • decreased inflammation and relief from arthritis
  • healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels
  • healthy heart, brain, and memory functions
  • decreased insulin resistance, better control over diabetes
  • optimal development of a child’s brain, nerves and eyes while breast feeding and during pregnancy

Amino Acids

Acai berries are chalk-full of amino acids, widely known as the building blocks of protein. In order for your muscles to recover from workouts or even just to function properly, you need an adequate intake of amino acids. I recommend .8 grams of protein in your diet per pound of goal body weight, so that’s a lot of amino acids.

Furthermore, when dieting, a lack of amino acids leads to muscle catabolism (muscle loss), which in turn leads to a slower metabolism, less stamina, fatigue, and loss of strength. Supplementing with acai berry gives you those extra amino acids that your body needs to function at optimal levels, especially when following a regular exercise routine.

Phytosterols

Phytosterols such as ß-sitosterol, which is prevalent in acai, decreases cholesterol levels by inhibiting cholesterol absorption in the intestines. When phytosterols are absorbed in the intestines, they are transported into the cell membrane where they bind to micelles in place of dietary cholesterol. This means that when your diet contains cholesterol, it is more likely to be transported from the body, rather than absorbed into the bloodstream.

There are 2 ways to add acai berries to your daily diet:

  1. Order a free trial of acai so you can test it out for 14 days.
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  2. Order a 1 month or 3 month supply and get a free bottle depending on how much you order.
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Step 2: Accelerate Fat Loss With Colon Cleansing

Colon Cleanse

Disgusting, harmful toxins infiltrate your body at work, at home, in the car, when you eat, when you sleep, and even when you breathe. They are on the vegetables and fruits you buy, they are in your meat, in your dairy products, on your clothes, in your deodorant and perfume, and even in the air.

Furthermore, in westernized culture, we eat more sugary, processed, and fried food than ever. We poison our bodies with a variety of sedatives, stimulants, pain relievers, and a million other medications. A high percentage of these medicine and food toxins build up in our liver, kidneys, and colon. They pollute our body and stress out our digestive systems.

To combat these toxins, we sometimes resort to enemas, detox diets, cleansing drinks, and colon cleansers. Our main goals is to cleanse the colon walls of stagnant toxic waste build up, which we can do cheaply and comfortably by using a colon cleansing dietary supplement.

By using a colon cleanser you will increase your vitality, improve your digestion, and lose weight. When combined with an acai berry diet, using a colon cleanser regularly will help to keep your intestines clean and your body free of toxins. It is recommended to use a colon cleansing supplement for 14-30 days, 4-6 times a year.

While not mandatory for the acai berry diet, using a colon cleanser will make the detox process much easier and faster, and it will help your efforts to lose weight. I’d choose a colon cleanser before I’d choose an enima, that’s for sure.

There are 2 ways to add colon cleansing to your daily diet:

  • Order a free trial of Colon Cleanse so you can test it out for 14 days.
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  • Order a 1 month or 3 month supply and get a free bottle depending on how much you order.
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Clear here to read more about colon cleansing on Project Swole.

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Step 3: Fat Loss Workout Routine to Use With the Acai Berry Diet

To maximize your weight loss on the acai diet, you should be working out at least three times a week for at least 30 minutes per session. Exercise is not mandatory on the acai berry diet, but it will help you lose fat even faster.

The best fat loss workout routines on Project Swole are:

These routines prescribe 6 days of exercise per week, and consist of 3 intense full body weight training workouts and 3 cardiovascular routines. Use these workouts to kick your fat loss into overdrive!

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Step 4: Intermittent Fasting to Accelerate Fat Loss Even More

An intermittent fast is the best approach to losing fat quickly on the acai berry diet. Intermittent fasting calls for a 6-8 hour feeding window, where you eat all of your calories for the day in 2 or 3 meals. Don’t eat after 8pm or before noon. Drink only water, tea, or coffee in between.

Like colon cleansing and the fat loss workout routines, fasting is not mandatory for the acai berry diet. However, intermittent fasting is a great lifestyle eating plan if you can get accustomed to it. Whole-day fasts are not typically recommended for those of us looking to build or maintain muscle mass, but intermittent fasting is a great solution.

Click here to read more about intermittent fasting on Project Swole.

How to Order a Free Trial or a Full Supply of Acai and Colon Cleanse

Once again, here are the instructions for ordering the best acai and colon cleansing supplements online. The free trial offers provide you with an inexpensive solution, while a full order will let you stock up and possibly get a couple free bottles. Just click on a link, submit your address, and away you go!

The 2 ways to add acai to your daily diet:

  1. Order a free trial of acai so you can test it out for 14 days.
    Click here to order the free trial.
  2. Order a 1 month or 3 month supply and get a free bottle depending on how much you order.
    Click here to order a full supply.

The 2 ways to add colon cleanse to your daily diet:

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about acai. You can read the whole list here: Acai Berry FAQ

Q: How much acai berry should I take each day?

A: It is recommended to take between 500 mg and 1000 mg (1 g) each day. This can be taken all at once or divided into several doses. See the previous question for more information on timing your acai intake.

Q: How much weight will I lose by taking acai?

A: You can lose between 1-2 pounds a week on a healthy diet and exercise plan. When taking acai you may lose at least twice that many pounds. You could definitely lose up to 12 or even 15 pounds a month by using acai, as long as you continue eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly.

Q: Will I gain the weight back after I stop using acai?

A: As long as you maintain a healthy diet and keep exercising, you will not gain fat just because you stop using acai. You might experience decreased weight loss or a plateau in your fat loss progress, but you will not suddenly start gaining it back.

Q: Can my pre-teen or teenage, son or daughter use acai?

A: Acai berries are fruit just like blueberries, oranges, and apples. It makes sense that if you are old enough to eat other fruit, then you are old enough to eat acai. The one caveat is that the supplement must be 100% pure acai. If your acai pill or juice contains other ingredients like Hoodia, caffeine or another thermogenic compound, I can’t promise it will be good for your kid.

Q: What are the side effects of acai berry supplements?

For 100% pure acai supplements, there are no side effects, just as there would be no side effects to taking a highly concentrated blueberry supplements. Sometimes acai berry pills have added ingredients such as caffeine, green tea, or hoodia, which could cause some acai berry side effects like increased energy and heart rate. This doesn’t make them dangerous by any means, but it should be noted that some acai berry supplements do have added ingredients.

Q: When should I take my acai berry supplement?

A: If you have an acai supplement with added ingredients like caffeine and hoodia, then you should only take your acai berry supplement in the morning. If you have a 100% pure acai supplement, then it is OK to take it in the morning and before bed, however I recommend you consistently take your acai supplement once per day, in the morning with breakfast.

Q: How many calories are in the acai berry supplements?

A: There are a ton of calories in the acai juices. Upwards of 200-500 calories per serving, depending on the product. I don’t recommend the juices for a weight loss diet, although they can fit nicely into a regular breakfast or as a pre-workout drink. The acai berry pills have negligible calories in comparison, and even then the calories are attributed to fiber, healthy fatty acids, and amino acids, as I mentioned above.

Q: Is the acai berry a scam?
A: No! This question frustrates me, because the acai berry diet is now receiving unnecessary negative publicity thanks to a few shady businesses. The acai berry received a bad rap in recent years because some companies took huge orders over the course of several months, shut down their customer service departments, and ran for the hills.

When you consider the health benefits of the acai berry itself, the proof is in the pudding… the acai berry pudding. Antioxidants are very real, and the acai berry is very high in antioxidants. If you ever wanted to take a supplement that could help you lose weight, stay healthy, and feel young, then the acai berry is for you.

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