I gained some weight recently and thought I’d see what the web has to say about acai berry juice for weight loss. Always looking for that magic bullet. You can find many reports of amazing weight loss (along with dozens of other health benefits), but these are almost entirely on sites that sell the product. And that got me sidetracked . . . If you buy acai berry juice online, you’ll pay a lot of money for it, so what about selling it? One of the companies that will set you up in business is Mona Vie, a multi-level marketing (MLM) company. You join to become a distributor and make money selling the product. Equally important, if you get others to become distributors on your “team,” some of their profits come to you . . . and so on. This is called a pyramid scheme when it’s not being sold. So, I was interested to read an article titled, “The Truth About Mona Vie and Whether or Not Mona Vie Is a Scam.” At its heart, the article makes a good point - if a lot of people are selling exactly the same product as you at the same price, the way to be successful is to sell yourself - your business - and that means selling and bundling other products. AND, to learn how to do this, you need training and mentoring. The author, Ellie Gant, doesn’t suggest that she will provide such training, but her article provides numerous links to an ad from Empowered Entrepeneurs, which promises to show you how to recruit “as many as 95+ people in less than 3 days.” So it turns out that this article is just another way to pull you into the MLM pyramid scheme. My recommendation is DON’T DO IT! And what about the acai berry juice. Well, it has lots of antioxidants, as do other dark colored berries (like pomegranates). If you want to try it, I suggest your local grocer or natural market. It’ll be a lot cheaper than buying from an internet business. I wouldn’t expect any weight loss, though.