What are the health benefits of chia seeds or acai berries?

What is acai juice and what are its benefits? My husband ordered free acai pills over the Internet and he is not taking them until I can find more information about them. I am very suspect about these pills.

The Health meets Food Team Says...

You are correct to be suspicious of such diet pills. There's no evidence that acai or chia seeds can improve your health or help your husband lose weight. Unfortunately, our government doesn't offer sufficient protection against such scam artists. There is some help from the FDA in alerts such as these:

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2009/NEW01977.html

Many of the diet pills that are being sold actually contain everything from pharmaceutical medications to green tea extract - which has been shown to cause liver damage.

There is no quick fix pill but here's info on how to eat healthy and lose weight sensibly.