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Jungle juice
by Udo Hoffmann Erudite polymath I do not hold with all these health and fitness "miracle" drinks that use things like Goji berry, acai (pronounced "a,sa'i") or any other wonder ingredient that has been around for thousands of years but only recently discovered by the lazy, fat, overweight masses to be the key to health and weight loss.I am not a doctor with a string of initials behind my name and a plaque on my door.
Nor am I a researcher who has spent most of my life exploring the chemical constituents of tropical berries and their possible applications.
What I am is a normal, average human being who has watch many friends and family members pour thousands of dollars down the drain on diets, lotions, pills and potions all in the effort to shed a few pounds.
Diet plan after diet plan, exercise plan after exercise plan, miracle pill after miracle pill. All sold by quacks whose only guarantee is that results will vary and that the person depicted is not typical (its all in the fine print) but that you will lose weight and feel healthier if you just send them your money. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
That being said I'm stumped.....
My lovely wife, Michelle, went over to a friends house back in April for a "tasting" party (can we say "sales pitch?"). Of course she came home flying high on endorphins and all bubbly about this "Super, Awesome, Wonderful etc, etc" jungle juice they were pitching.
Now Michelle has been looking for a business to get into, with the "perfect product", for some time now and not wanting to burst her bubble I took a few pokes at this stuff about it being another pitch for jungle juice, but only to see if her enthusiasm would deflate. It didn't.
Oki... if she was interested I would be supportive of her efforts "IF" the company was good and the pay scale worthy of the effort. After doing a thorough research on the company I was satisfied they they were A) legit, B) financially sound and C) paying their people and affiliates.
But I was not about to go pitching a product that while it tasted good made claims I knew from past experiences with similar things were just a bunch of hype and designed to make you "think" it worked when in reality it was your own efforts and a change in eating habits and life style that did the trick.
Enter my confusion....
Michelle has been eating as usual (I do the cooking, same as always), she exercises as she always has, 1 or 2x a week "if" she remembers. Nothing in her habits has changed except that she takes this stuff once in the morning and again later in the day.
So, 9 weeks later, nothing should be changing right?.... WRONG!
She has lost weight (she would kill me if I mentioned a number here), has a lot more (insert private adult activity here) energy and the pains in her hips are gone.
I belive that the following quote is attributed to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes... "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Despite my past experiences and everything I thought I knew about so called jungle juices... this stuff works!
So if your in the market for a wake-up call about what you think you know.
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About Udo Hoffmann 
Erudite polymath
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Udo Hoffmann
Erudite polymathYep thought about that before I wrote the article, not the first time she has been excited and animated about something but it IS the first time that there has been a steady and noticeable change occurring. And no... she still forgets to work out just as often as she used to... no change there. lol Keep in mind I did NOT say a RAPID or DRAMATIC weight loss. I said a steady and noticeable loss and that is a first! Nothing un-natural in the juice... its 23 different berry juices blended and it's working... I'm a happy hubby :D Jul 15th 2011 03:38 |
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Arthur Webster
 Just plain honestyGlad to hear it, Udo. Nine weeks is not a very long time to lose a noticeable amount of weight PASSIVELY. If this was my wife and the only thing that has changed is the fruit juice that she drinks, I would now be getting concerned. If, in some mysterious way, this juice is blocking the absorption of certain food groups to cause the weight loss, I (and my wife) would want to know which food groups are being blocked and how their nutritional properties were being replaced. Unusual weight loss can impinge upon muscle mass - and the heart is a large muscle. There is a great danger in unqualified people selling health related products - especially those that seem to affect bodily function with no other application necessary. Jul 18th 2011 01:42 |
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Udo Hoffmann
Erudite polymathFirst allow me to apologize.. its 19 NOT 23 fruit juices blended. Now... re you comment, I absolutely agree sooooooooooo........ you be the judge. Apple, grape, pear, aronia, acai, jucara, prune, kiwi, cranberry, black current, blueberry, pomegranate, wolfberry, camu camu, maqui, banana, cupuacu, bilberry and jabuticaba. That is the juice.. they do add citric and ascorbic acids for flavour enhancement and sodium benzoate as a preservative as well as a half dozen vitamins for good measure. I do my homework (check some of my other articles :D) Also I am no cad so I will not mention a weight but I will say that my lovely wife is "bountiful" and while I can not yet see any weight loss, I am assured that it has been a steady rate of about 2 pounds ( say 1 Kilo?) per week now. Should the muscles or heart be affected I would not expect to see the increase she has demonstrated in energy and resilience. Jul 19th 2011 01:38 |
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Arthur Webster
Just plain honestyWow! Look at those berries! By the time the rarer types have been collected and squeezed, the actual quantities of each must be miniscule. Camu Camu is an endangered species so probably is in mega microscopic proportions. Maqui berries are not very rich in anthocyanin content so are probably included for the fancy name. Bird species that rely upon the maqui berry could become threatened by the excessive harvesting of this relatively worthless fruit. Cupuacu, the national fruit of Brazil, is probably the most effective nutritional content item. The fruit is well know for its antioxidant and stimulant qualities (caffeine without caffeine) but is not seen as particularly valuable where weight loss is concerned. For a bountiful woman (what a lovely term) 1 kilo weight loss per week through ingested stimulants should be safely sustainable. Jul 19th 2011 02:17 |
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Udo Hoffmann
Erudite polymathIf I remember correctly (need to double check my info) the maqui berries used are from orchards in Spain. I do understand that they are paying people in Brazil to plant (for the purpose of harvesting) Acai palms. But hey...it's working and its not toxic... what more can we ask for? PS... I like yer BS meter...lol Never met a cynic I didn't like :D Jul 19th 2011 14:48 |
Udo, one of the things that many years as a hospital patient has shown me to be a great "healer" is the human mind! You say your wife is doing and eating nothing different and yet she is wilkdly enthusiastic about this particular jungle juice! Enthusiasm burns calouries! Animated conversation (and I am sure she is animated when telling friends of her success) burns more calouries. Because of her devotion to this huice, what is the betting that she no longer 'forgets' her exercise? She wants to feel fitter so maybe she is now walking further and faster than previously - no longer getting in the car to go a few hundred yards? I believe that your scepticism is well founded and nine weeks is a short period of time in which to lose a significant amount of weight passively. If you wife's weight loss is dramatic AND it is due, solely, to the jungle juice, maybe you should check the ingredients and have her doctor confirm that the rapid weight loss is doing her no harm.
Jul 15th 2011 02:02