date:Aug 23, 2012
fed a more enriched diet of a standard cornmeal/molasses mush, the effects of supplementation with acai were more pronounced in males than in females, said the team.
Males' lifespans were almost doubled with acai (20 to 40 days) but the effects on females were not as strong (30 to 34 days).
On an enriched diet, male flies were more sensitive to paraquat than females as well.
Implications for humans
Vrailas-Mortimer noted that so far large clinical trials studying the effects of antioxidants