Learn To Get Healthy

Most people think that using vinegar to improve your health is a new concept, then you would be totally mis-informed. Vinegar has been used in different cultures over the centuries as a condiment, sanitizer, preservative, antiseptic, medicine and believe it or not, a beauty aid. Traditional folk medicine has used vinegar for many years. Long known remedies have been used promote health and well being in animals and humans alike. Vinegar, in one form or another, has been used for more than ten thousand years.

Vinegar is made when any alcoholic liquid ferments. It is easy to see why you can improve your health with vinegar, as when naturally fermented it contains no fat, is low sodium and a rich source of trace elements, vitamins and minerals including sulfur, magnesium, iron, calcium, phosphorus plus enzymes which contribute to wellness.

Over processed and over heated brands which are diluted and highly filtered are not the best option when buying vinegar to improve your health. Reading the labels and lchecking for the words organic, pure, unfiltered, or aged in wood. These varieties may be overlooked in a supermarket and are more likely to be found in a health food shop but may cost you more.

Vinegar comes from many sources with different flavours and aromas even in today’s modern supermarket. Vinegar can also be made from potatoes, melons, honey, molasses, beets, sorghum, maple syrup, cactus, grapes and coconuts. A vinegar that has the highest nutritional value is apple cider vinegar and is readily available.

Greek and Roman soldiers have documented vinegar as a source of power and strength, so did Japanese Samurai warriors. during the Stone Age vinegar was used as a means of getting healthy and it is excellent for digesting high protein meals and heavy foods. This aide to digestion may explain why it is a favourite with “Fish and Chips” one of the favoured foods in our modern day diet.

Looking at other ways to improve your health with vinegar brings us to taking stock of a short list with more information in further articles to come: Effective fighter of bacterial and fungal infections Dandruff and flaky scalp rinse. Enzymes to help keep your gallbladder healthy Aides indigestion and liver stagnation Painful arthritis and osteoporosis even aides memory loss For the relief athlete’s foot when used in a footbath Ear infections in children Blood pressure regulator Dietary aide in losing weight

If you are a keen gardener, you can also improve your health with vinegar by using it as a preventative measure against backache especially as vinegar will kill those prolific nuisance weeds like Clover, Dandelion, Thistle and Ragweed thus easing the strain on your back by not having to wrestle with stubborn weeds. The multiple health benefits abound when you use vinegar to get rid of weeds because the chemicals found in many synthetic weed killers can be extremely dangerous to our pets, the wildlife in our gardens, and not to forget, to us and our children.

If you are interested in organic gardening then vinegar is considered biodegradable and therefore comes into this category. I have it on good authority that there is no need to worry Worried about the PH levels in your soil when using vinegar? Well there is no need, because although vinegar decreases PH levels it is an organic substance and it will restore to its original PH within two days.

While you can improve your health with vinegar in lots of ways, you can also improve the health of your garden by keeping it weed free and thriving and weed pulling by hand and the backache of pulling each weed will be a thing of the past.