So Much For All That Acai…

Posted By elissa on Aug 28, 2010 | 1 comment

Funny, I thought that acai was supposed to magically help people lose weight?!  If this were true, you’d think the Brazilians – who slurp up the stuff fresh – would be the leanest people in the world.

But apparently not… according to Reuters:

Nearly half of adult Brazilians are overweight and about 15 percent are obese, Brazil’s IBGE social statistics agency said on Friday, citing the results of a national study carried out with the Health Ministry.

Among 20- to 24-year-olds, the percentage of men who were overweight jumped to 50.1 percent from 18.5 percent in a survey carried out in 1974, while the percentage of overweight women rose to 48 percent from 28.7 percent.

“We are in a situation of absolute red alert,” Brazil’s Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao told reporters in beach-side Rio de Janeiro.

“If we stay at this pace, in 10 years we will have two-third of the population overweight (or obese), as has happened in the United States.”

The Brazilians still haven’t caught up with Americans yet, but they’re certainly on the right, errr… wrong track.

Need I say more? Superfruits don’t make weight loss miracles happen, unfortunately.