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For many generations vinegar has been used to improve health and as a cure all. It is proving to be one of the best aids to getting healthy today. The vinegar diet uses apple cider vinegar; an acidic solution made by fermenting apples and it is full of powerful natural enzymes and totally free of toxic chemicals.

Speculation has been growing as to whether you can actually improve your health with vinegar. Right back in the 17th century and in 1820 Lord Byron the renown poet, apparently suffered from bulimia and anorexia nervosa, he popularised the vinegar and water diet. Apple cider vinegar features in the 1950’s D.C Jarvis’s book documenting Folk Medicine. Views published in this book referred to a host of treatments containing apple cider vinegar covering a list of disorders from arthritis, to chronic fatigue to weight loss and general health and well being.

It has been reported by the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition that you can use vinegar to maintain insulin and blood sugar levels after eating a carbohydrate meal and they also reported that cider vinegar taken before a meal made you feel fuller after eating less.

The American Diabetes Association states that a more acidic stomach can increase the absorption levels of nutrients such as magnesium, calcium, vitamin C and B vitamins, but this may onset heartburn and flare up gastric ulcers.

The American Dietetic Association includes the vinegar diet on its list of fad diets. Even though breakthrough research into vinegar is on going today. The Association considers the main reason you might improve your health with vinegar and lose weight is because the vinegar diet also involves eating managed portions, watching the nutritional values of food and exercising.

A Californian based company led by Patricia Bragg wholeheartedly believes that you can improve your health with vinegar. This company is one of the leading manufacturers and Patricia Bragg also praises the benefits in her book “Apple Cider Vinegar: Miracle Health System”

Although there has been little research with people into the benefits of cider vinegar the Agricultural Research Center in Alexandria, Egypt studied its nutritional and physiological effects on mice. They used groups of female mice and for four weeks gave them 0.17, 0.51 and 1.02 ml of the vinegar per kg of bodyweight. The mice treated with 0.51 ml per kg lost a significant amount of weight. This research also indicated that extreme high doses as in the mice given 1.02 ml of the vinegar per kg of bodyweight did induce changes in the stomach, liver and duodenum when examined under a microscope.

It is thought that it is the combination of fruit pectin and acidic vinegar, which makes cider vinegar so effective as a fat burner and this diet usually involves taking up to three teaspoons before each meal. You may initially have a problem with the sharp taste and find it difficult to swallow, but see how you go with just a spoonful to start with and build up to three over a week or two.

If you really want to improve your health with vinegar, lose weight and achieve wellness yet find you cannot stomach drinking cider vinegar, then you will be pleased to know that you can buy cider vinegar diet pills, which are much easier to swallow.

If like me you are underweight you probably find yourself exasperated by all the people around that are on diets because no matter how hard you try you never manage to put on a pound. This is because you are more than likely deficient in the enzymes contained in cider vinegar and consequently cannot burn up or use the food that you eat. This means that no matter how much protein and fatty foods you eat, your body still lacks the necessary enzymes.

So for people who want to gain weight and want to improve their health. Mix two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with an equal amount of honey add two drops of iodine into a glass of distilled water this diet will improve your enzyme deficiencies and help to maintain your weight.