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Submited By: Michael Simmonds on 02/11/2007
Hippocrates, the Greek Father of Medicine who lived between 460-377 BC, prescribed apple cider vinegar for its powerful cleansing, healing and germ fighting abilities.
Now there’s an interesting fun fact about health and nutrition!
Even though Hippocrates lived a very long time ago, the positive benefits of apple cider vinegar continue to exist today. Research has shown that the uses for apple cider vinegar are numerous, including:
- Allergies (pet, food and environmental)
- Weight loss
- Sinus infections
- Acne
- High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Flu
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Candida (yeast infection)
- Acid reflux
- Sore throat
- Eczema
- Arthritis
- Gout
Apple cider vinegar has been used for more than 10,000 years and was actually discovered when a case of wine got too old and fermented into a vinegar product. Since then people have been using apple cider vinegar both as a food and medicine for themselves and their pets.
Perhaps the most common use for apple cider vinegar these days is weight loss. So how does it work in this regard? Well, very simply put, apple cider vinegar helps to remove toxins from your body, curb your appetite and speed up your metabolism, thereby helping to burn off excess fat. Apple cider vinegar is very high in fiber and since fiber provides your body with indigestible bulk, supplements that are high in fiber make you feel more full and therefore you will consume fewer calories.
Many people are quick to dismiss apple cider vinegar as just another fad diet. However, a report in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that apple cider vinegar helps to control blood sugar and insulin levels following a carbohydrate-rich meal, and also it does indeed help to create a feeling of fullness (called satiation). After ingestion of the recommended dosage followed by a carbohydrate-rich meal, the sense of fullness was more than doubled.
Studies conducted on apple cider vinegar have found it to contain 90 different substances, such as 13 types of carbolic acids, 20 ketones, 18 types of alcohols and 4 aldehydes. All of this translates into apple cider vinegar being able to provide your body with enzymes, minerals, and trace elements such as potassium, calcium magnesium, copper and iron and vitamins such as vitamin c, vitamin e, vitamin a, vitamin b1, beta-carotene and a host of bioflavonoids.
A skeptic would suggest that you could obtain the same nutritional benefits from simply eating an apple! Apples are certainly very high in nutritional value, but the same elements and actions are not as evident as they are in apple cider vinegar. The reasoning behind this is that the nutrients found in apple cider vinegar are retained when apple juice is fermented into hard cider and then undergoes a second fermentation into actual apple cider vinegar.
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