The Ultimate Health Berry Can actually repair cell damage [anti-aging], increase immune function and aide in weight loss. Now that's a near magic berry..."

'Miracle' Berries Can Help You Live Longer. There's a miracle berry that can help you live longer and healthier and chances are you've never heard of it. It's called acai and it could help you ward off cancer, protect your heart, even prevent Alzheimer's disease, according to some research.

Acai Replaces Wheatgrass at Juice Bars
At juice bars and health stores around the country, the hip new taste is the Acai fruit, (pronounced ah-sigh-EE) a grape-size, deep-purple berry that grows atop palm trees in the Brazilian jungle

Clinical Cancer Research At the University of Florida
Brazilian berry destroys cancer cells in lab UF study shows

A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits.

Published today in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the study showed extracts from acai (ah-SAH’-ee) berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 percent of leukemia cells tested, said Stephen Talcott, an assistant professor with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.