http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Carl+Cruz Food and Drinks Carl Cruz Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200204&ca=Food+and+Drinks Do you remember Beta Carotene? In the 1980’s, no one but doctors and nutritionists had ever heard that beta carotene even existed, until one day when some technician found that the high BC content in carrots does a lot of good for heart patients. So in 1992 a major study (18,000 people) was done on... Food and Drinks Carl Cruz Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200205&ca=Food+and+Drinks So here’s the dilemma: If it’s produce, then the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to call it a food. If you use it to heal you in some way, then the FDA wants to call it a drug… There is a very fine line in most peoples’ minds, but any line left between the two the Acai berry has just tot... Food and Drinks Carl Cruz Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200206&ca=Food+and+Drinks Here’s a quote I hear a lot from new Acai fans: “Acai has the richest Antioxidant of any food in the world.” Yes, you can truthfully say that, it is a quote by Dr. Strauss, who was the first person to run an ORAC evaluation on Acai berries. However, do people really understand what this means? It’s... Food and Drinks Carl Cruz Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=200207&ca=Food+and+Drinks Of course you know that the Acai palm tree (açaí) is a 6-24 meter tall, fruiting palm that grows in Amazonia, mostly in the wetlands of Brazil. It was named by the native people there as “içá-çai”, which roughly translated is: “the fruit that cries”. It’s an unusual name, but it has a story. An Acai...