Look for Food to Provide Your Body Youthful Results
For hundreds of years, the Brazilian rain forest has been thought to contain many of medicines within plants and herbs that could alleviate most ailments known today.
Scientific evidence has made this legend fact; Buried deep within the South American rain forest, a berry like no other has been revered as Amazonian treasure for hundreds of years. The Acai fruit offers an answer to the stories of old.
The Acai fruit is actually pronounced Ah-sigh-ee and has been cultivated by the local people of the Brazilian rain forest for hundreds of years. It has proven to be a cure for everything from the common mumps to diabetes. New discoveries even have shown evidence that this tiny berry is properties to curing cancer.
There is a legend among the locals of the Amazon region where the Acai fruit grows. Once upon a time, a tribe that had been prosperous for centuries faced extinction because of the threat of famine. The price became so great that the leader of the tribe, whose name was Itaki, made a decree that all firstborn children were to be sacrificed.
After discovering that his own daughter was pregnant, the tribal leader was saddened that this declaration would affected his own family. He then forced his daughter to sacrifice her new born.
In his daughter’s despair, she locked herself in her room, refusing to eat or drink anything. One night, she heard what she interpreted to be her baby’s cries. She stumbled out of the house immediately and there, resting under a palm tree, appeared a vision of the baby she had lost.
The next morning, the tribe descended to this palm tree and discovered the dead body of the tribal chiefs daughter. As they looked up at the palm tree, they noticed clumps of blue berries, which later became known as acai berries.
The acai fruit saved the tribe from certain death through hunger and to this day has been key to the offspring of that tribe where the acai fruit has proven to be the primary export of the people of Belem where the acai fruit is harvested.
This tiny Acai fruit is still proven to be one of the largest economic exports for this tiny city in Brazil.
Dr. Darena Kundrow PHD has spent 35 years investigating how food affects the body. She has an Isagenix web site that explains why an Isagenix diet could address many of the health and obesity problems occurring so frequently in the United States today.