The truth about apple vinegar !

[anthrax]

You believe that apple vinegar pills can help you lose weight ?
In fact it is just BS.
just read this article:

A few vinegar pills probably won't do one bit of good in helping you lose weight either. This old diet fad dates back to the 1970s, when a combination of apple cider, kelp, vitamin B-6, and lecithin was touted as the miracle cure for weight loss. The rationale for this concoction was that it tricked your body's metabolism. According to the

claims, lecithin emulsified body fat, B-6 metabolized the loosened fat, kelp supplied iodine to stimulate the thyroid gland to manufacture more thyroxin to speed metabolism, and vinegar supplied potassium. Like salad dressings where oil and vinegar don't mix, this was supposed to help rid the body of fat.


There is no scientific basis, or even rational reason, for any of these claims. For example, a teaspoon of vinegar contains only five milligrams of potassium, a meager amount compared to the 400 milligrams in a cup of grapefruit juice. Swallowing more iodine will jump start a thyroid gland only if you are deficient in this mineral (you'll know if you are iodine-deprived because you will have developed a goiter, or an enlargement of the thyroid gland). When people lost weight on this regimen it was because they also followed the accompanying low-calorie diet.

 

[MS]

Although the scientific evidence is not overwhelming at this stage, a recent paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2001 Jul;74(1):96-100) indicates that adding some organic acids (such as vinegar yogurt) can substantially reduce the insulotropic and glycemic effects of dairy products in mixed high glycemic meals. So perhaps a little cider vinegar with you dairy might help you lose weight by reducing the insulin response........

 

[anthrax]

what about sauerkraut (sorry, I am not sure it is the right word - it is fermented cabbage) or the different milk fermented produce ?

 

[MS]

There haven't been any specific studies looking at sauerkraut, but it's prolly in the same category as other pickled foods or vinegar. In the fermented milk category, they only looked at yogurt, so I dunno about mouldy cheeses. But the conclusions from the study looking at yogurt impact did say "fermented milk products" so who knows.

 

[BronzedGoddess]

I hate passing on info when I'm not totally sure but....ACV is suppose to help the body's response to sugar somehow. The reason I know this is because at the begining of the school I'm going to (DOD Biomedical Equipment Repair) we have a guy with a PHd give us all sorts of hints and pointers to help us get through the school because its one of the hardest schools in the military(enlisted wise). Anyways, he told us to drink 1 tablespoon of ACV a day to "neutralize" the sugars we have digested so we will be alert and not sluggish. He also said how sugar was EVIL! Oh well..........