APPLE CIDER VINEGAR DIET
The Apple Cider Vinegar diet was supposedly used by the ancient Egyptians used apple cider vinegar to help achieve health and weight loss, making it another ‘ancient’ diet to make a comeback centuries later. Users will take 1-3 tsp. of apple cider vinegar before meals.
Foods Emphasized: Apple cider vinegar with meals
Foods Discouraged: Nothing
Premise and Guidelines: Apple cider vinegar has a lengthy history of being used as a natural health remedy for a variety of ailments. There isn’t much scientific evidence to show that it can cure illnesses, although it is a potent source of potassium and allegedly can help alkalinize the body. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that apple cider can improve digestion when consumed with meals, but its efficacy as a weight-loss supplement is unproven.
Apple cider vinegar is the result of fermented apple juice. Sugar, yeast and certain bacteria are combined with apple juice and fermented. The fermentation process forms acetic acid, which is the ingredient claimed to make apple cider vinegar an effective dieting supplement. Taking up to three tablespoons of apple cider vinegar prior to meals is all that is recommended on this ‘diet’, which is less of a diet than it is a supplement recommendation.
Those favoring apple cider vinegar to be a weight loss aid claim your body will discard excess fluids, and using the vinegar regularly will increase your metabolism and help control hunger. It probably isn’t harmful to add this to your diet, and it could be incorporated into salad dressings as a replacement for balsamic or other vinegars, but it technically isn’t a diet- you could add it into another real diet. It’s doubtful that using the vinegar alone is going to cause any true weight loss.