Vinegar is a fat buster

The Times of India ^ | 7 Jul 2009 | IANS

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

The vinegar used to garnish salad dressings, pickles and other foods, may live up to its folk reputation as a fat buster and health promoter.

Japanese researchers Tomoo Kondo and colleagues noted that vinegar has also been used as a folk medicine since ancient times, for a range of illnesses.

Modern research suggests that acetic acid, the main component of vinegar, may help control blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and fat accumulation.

Their new study showed that lab mice fed a high-fat diet and given acetic acid developed significantly less body fat (up to 10 percent less) than other mice, said an American Chemical Society (ACS) release.

Importantly, the new research bolsters evidence that acetic acid fights fat by turning on genes for fatty acid oxidation enzymes.

The genes churn out proteins involved in breaking down fats, thus suppressing body fat accumulation in the body.

These findings were published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Saw an article on Readers' Digest a month or so ago, were they mentioned vinegar's acetic acid interfering with the mechanism by which glucose enters the bloodstream from the digestive system. If anyone has more info on this, please share!

[Tamar1973]

My Grandmother in Law has sworn by Apple Cider Vinegar for years!

[knarf]

... and I LOVE salad(s) !

[SkyDancer]

Alcohol is a solvent therefore drinking copious amounts of vodka gimlets or your favorite adult beverage should clean out your arteries ...

[a fool in paradise]

You’ll eat less cake if you pour a bottle of vinegar into the mix...

But yes, vinegar does have some healthy properties.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Japanese researchers Tomoo Kondo and colleagues noted that vinegar has also been used as a folk medicine since ancient times, for a range of illnesses.

Olives too. Very big with Mediterranean village cultures.

[Malsua]

That means Salt and Vinegar chips must be the perfect food.

[IamConservative]

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,183,158169-229206,00.html

The Amish call it “Jogging in a Jug”..

[Ben Mugged]

Dissolves your teeth. No more teeth, you lose weight. ;-)

[WOBBLY BOB]

or just eat British food.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Some vinegars have sugar in them...although I love the golden balsamic. My kids always drink some vinegar by the spoonfuls.

[TommyDale]

I have been taking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with 8 ounces of water each evening, and my heartburn/acid reflux has been near non existent. I bet the makers of Nexxum, Prilosec, Pepcid and those other acid blockers that sell for $120 for a month’s supply aren’t too happy.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Drink it straight / undiluted? Isn’t that a bit corrosive to the throat?

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Google Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar. I seem to remember their website sheds some light on the medicinal benefits of vinegar. A gallon of the stuff lasts a pretty good while.

[CougarGA7]

Just don’t take it with too much water.

[Red_Devil 232]

Yes! Yes! Hey Does Beer Count?

[Sax]

Apple Cider Vinegar...A gallon of the stuff lasts a pretty good while.

Not during the summer BBQ'ing season. Not so much with beef, but doing up pork bbq on a smoker, and you can really go through that stuff!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I remember my great-granny used to drink pickle juice when she had indigestion. Now that I am in full pickle-making mode, I realize that she was taking vinegar.

[SkyDancer]

From what I read ‘alcohol’ and since that’s in beer... Actually beer is healthier because of all the grains in it plus protein. I read in history where mother’s would feed it to their babies in German occupied Paris during WWII because food was so hard to get but for some reason beer wasn’t .....

[Red_Devil 232]

Not if you follow it with a Nexxum!:)

[VicVega]

Does the 2c mean 2 cups? Thats a lot of honey if so.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Vinegar foot-soak — read on the web that it works for toenail fungus. It did for my wife. It arrests the fungus while the nail grows out.

[Red_Devil 232]

Downed with a beer - it is!

[unkus]

ping for home

[Red_Devil 232]

Hey! Where you been?

[JustaDumbBlonde]

This is true, but I don’t use the Bragg’s for BBQ ... the regular brand at the store is good for that. Bragg’s contains the Mother, and we use it for salads and daily dosing. BTW, I have three racks of pork baby backs in the smoker as we speak.

[diamond6]

Time to start guzzling the vinegar then!

[numberonepal]

You’ll eat less cake if you pour a bottle of vinegar into the mix...

Red Velvet Cake has vinegar as an ingredient.

[waverna]

Interesting, but a high-fat diet also has a reducing effect on blood sugar so its hard to say if it was the acid or the fat that helped.

Anyone who’s done the Atkins diet has seen the same result.

[Bronzy]

Mix it with olive oil.

[Blue Highway]

They don’t specify what type of vinegar to use. White vinegar or apple cider vinegar?

[Crimson Elephant]

Apple Cider Vinegar...but not the commercial crap....get the natural kind with the “mother” in it.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Reader’s Digest mentioned apple cider vinegar, but it also stated that the acetic acid was the component in it that was doing the trick. This acid is what white vinegar is, too.

[a fool in paradise]

I still doubt they use the whole bottle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_velvet_cake

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I have been in the yard, garden, corn field and cotton fields, up to my neck in work and fun in the kitchen as well. Canning is a time-and-a-half job this time of year, and we have been so busy trying to keep the fields irrigated in this drought. We have 3 new wells are are learning how to blow-out poly pipe by the roll! Who said farming was boring? On top of all that, I’m still battling Lyme for all I’m worth. I do read your weekly gardening thread every week though ... it is always a pleasure to hear how everything is going with everyone.

[doodad]

That is what I was thinking. No wonder you put vinegar in the water pan; it melts the cholesterol in the delicious smoked pork shoulder.

[the_Watchman]

Reading about drinking pickle juice reminds me of the first joke I learned to tell while in grade school:

A little boy brought a box to his teacher and asked her to guess what his gift might be. She didn’t have a clue, but just then a little bit of fluid came out of the corner. So she dragged her finger through it and guessed: “Pickles?” The little boy responded: “No, a puppy!”

[numberonepal]

True. Touche.

[aruanan]

Japanese researchers Tomoo Kondo and colleagues noted that vinegar has also been used as a folk medicine since ancient times, for a range of illnesses.

Urine has been used this way, too.

[aruanan]

The genes churn out proteins involved in breaking down fats, thus suppressing body fat accumulation in the body.

The only way this would work would be for the fat to be excreted from the body, which isn't possible, or for the mitochondria to enter a futile cycle in which oxidation is decoupled from phosphorylation, producing mainly water and heat.

[Sax]

I hear that!

[Red_Devil 232]

Hey, us gardeners miss you and your input!

Did not know you were battling Lyme!

My wife's sister is still recovering from an almost deadly bout of West Nile Virus. Shreveport area. She was bitten and hospitalized a little more than three years ago. Just devestated her life but she is doing well now - still has a few aches and pains though.

[Sax]

PS - never knew what “mother” was regarding ACV. Learned something new today.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

It can be excreted at the site of absorption, i.e., the intestines. The article I read referred to acetic acid’s ability to disturb sugar/starch digestion.

[mass55th]

A friend of mine’s father has been drinking a glass of apple cider vinegar a day for years, and has never had high cholesterol. He swears by it.

[353FMG]

This has been known by the Chinese for thousands of years.

[Frantzie]

I think the red vinegar is the good stuff. I love balsamic on salad.

The red vinegar also helps with sunburns though aloe is probably better.

[aruanan]

It can be excreted at the site of absorption, i.e., the intestines. The article I read referred to acetic acid’s ability to disturb sugar/starch digestion.

There is no mechanism in the body for the excretion of fat. I say this as someone with a Ph.D. in human nutrition/nutritional biology.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

I mean, if someone tested human stool for the presence of fats, would the tests prove negative? That is, does the body completely absorb all fats that the digestive system encounters? I can see this feature would have proven itself useful during times of starvation.

[deport]

Look up Apple Cider Vinegar, unfiltered and unpasteurised health benifits. A little dab will do you according to the promoters.