For centuries, the Amazon rain forest has been believed to have a plethora of medicines within plants and herbs that could cure 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.
(pronounced Ah-sigh-ee), this tiny fruit has been cultivated by the Amazonian tribes of the for thousands of years. It has proven to be a cure all from ailments like the common cold to diabetes. New scientific data has even linked this tiny fruit to certain types of 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.
Unbeknown at the time to Itaki, declaration would even infiltrate his own family. He discovered that his own daughter, Laca, was about to give birth, so she to would have to sacrifice her firstborn child.
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.
To this day the acai fruit has proven mighty as it is the export that has kept this tiny tribe afloat since its discovery
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.
(pronounced Ah-sigh-ee), this tiny fruit has been cultivated by the Amazonian tribes of the for thousands of years. It has proven to be a cure all from ailments like the common cold to diabetes. New scientific data has even linked this tiny fruit to certain types of 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.
Unbeknown at the time to Itaki, declaration would even infiltrate his own family. He discovered that his own daughter, Laca, was about to give birth, so she to would have to sacrifice her firstborn child.
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.
To this day the acai fruit has proven mighty as it is the export that has kept this tiny tribe afloat since its discovery
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