I can't be the only one seeing my junk mail folder filling with this kind of spam. I'm sure we've all endured a never ending inbox full of promises to shrink this, re-grow that, lengthen this, or meet lots of that. It's clogging my filters with unfulfilled promises of personal improvement and easy-fixes for whatever I can imagine ails me. I never bite, never even nibble, but I am curious.
I started doing a little research on açaí- which means I Googled it. The resulting 5.24-Million hits were sure to occupy more of my attention span than I could possibly...ooh, look at that squirrel outside my window...set aside...dog's gonna eat you!...so I went with the first...get'm Karma!...on the list; the end-all, infallible authority on everything you need to know on the interwebs, Wikipedia. One click later I had a link I could post right here in my blog. Whew! Good job, Steve. I'm spent. Call it a day.
Here's the thing. I can get açaí berry pulp in the freezer section of my local grocery store. I'm not going to argue the beneficial food properties of the stuff, what I will say is that I look at this stuff like so many other "Super-duper-fill-in-the-blank-with-some-exotically-spelled-and-relatively-unknown-berry-shrub-critter" as 99% hype. My reality is that there is no wonder cure that's going to make me fit and trim overnight. There is no magical fix. Besides, magic didn't put on the weight, so magic sure as hell isn't going to take it off.
Nothing I read about açaí makes me think it will do anything special. It is colorful stuff though- and comes in frozen single-serving packages. The only thing it can do for me is add a little variety to the frozen berries I use in my morning smoothies. Hmm. I can see myself flushing 50 pounds already-- right out of my junk mail folder.
(Day 473 / -154 +/- ? lbs.) Açaí SuperFood- "Flush Up To 50 lbs.!" Note To Self, "Call The Plumber."
9/07/2008 01:56:00 PM | 50 lbs., Açaí, magic | 1 comments »
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The exotic juice fad is in full swing! The Acai berry is pretty common in Brazil. They put it in their soda pop and on their ice cream. It's not a big deal there. When a few Americans decided to market it as a juice, they developed some market hype just like the other exotic juice companies like Noni and started selling it for $40 per bottle.
Americans are enamored with the exotic and new. Attach some outrageous promises to it and you have a winner
We have some amazing fruits and vegetables right here in this country that you don't need to spend so much money on. Works for me.