"An apple a day keeps the doctor away", let alone two ... pounds!
Many are in fact the apples used to produce apple vinegar at home.
A known remedy since ancient times - it is even said by Hippocrates, the father of medicine - it is useful not only for seasoning salads, but also for its many health properties . These also include fat-burning properties .
There are no miracle remedies, and we know it, but maybe we can find that apple cider vinegar also works to help us lose weight ?
Apple vinegar: property
The properties of apple vinegar, produced from apple cider, derive from the characteristic properties of the apples themselves: presence of minerals, vitamins and fiber (pectin), which helps to absorb less fat.
The properties of apple vinegar will therefore be purifying, alkalizing, invigorating. And fat-burning, or rather "fat-throwing".
Apple vinegar works to lose weight, in a well-balanced diet, if used as a condiment for vegetables and salads, because it has fewer calories than balsamic vinegar (21 versus 88 kcal) and is an excellent alternative to salt . And remember that often too much salt rhymes with cellulite.
Here is a detailed list of apple vinegar properties :
- Valid support to eliminate toxins
- It helps to stimulate the metabolism and therefore to maintain weight-shape
- It helps the drainage of fat cells and cellulite : reduction of swelling and improvement of circulation
- Antioxidant: reduction of free radicals
- Relieves oral infections and supports the immune system in general
- Helps adjust the pH
- Increases the production of saliva and digestive enzymes, facilitating digestion
- Improves intestinal health thanks to fibers
- Applied with compresses on the hair, it makes them strong and shiny .
Fat-burning apple vinegar: does it work?
Of course, it does not work miracles, on its own, but it really seems that apple vinegar can help the fat-burning action. This property of apple vinegar derives from the role of acetic acid - content in large quantities in apple vinegar - in the regulation of insulin production.
Insulin is the hormone that stores sugar inside the cells, where it accumulates as fat, if it is not used. Furthermore, acetic acid may also play an important role in inhibiting the activity of certain genes that promote fat accumulation.
A balanced diet, proper hydration, physical activity and a little apple vinegar: here is a good recipe with fat-burning properties and weight loss!
The benefits of apple extract
Apple vinegar to lose weight: how to do it
Use it to season, as an alternative to salt and balsamic vinegar, on vegetables and salads. Hazardous unusual combinations: a pinch of apple vinegar in fruit salads instead of lemon, or on steamed fish.
In addition to using it in the kitchen, take full advantage of the thousands of beneficial properties (not just fat-burning and weight-loss) of apple vinegar, taking it as a real remedy : mix 2 teaspoons of apple vinegar and 1 teaspoon of honey with little water and drink it as soon as you wake up, before having breakfast . For an enhanced effect, you can add a few drops of the Crab Apple Bach Flower, which is the flower of the wild apple tree.
Apple vinegar: contraindications
There are few, but also for apple vinegar there are contraindications to watch out for.
- Buy apple vinegar from organic farming : the contraindications, in the case of non-organic products, concern the accumulation of pesticides used in apple cultivation;
- Attention to quantities : an excessive use of apple vinegar has contraindications for the appearance of respiratory problems, skin allergies, nausea and risk of erosion of tooth enamel.
Apple vinegar to lose weight. And the cider?
A close relative of apple vinegar, cider is an alcoholic beverage produced from the fermentation of apple pressing. Of bittersweet taste, it can have between 4 and 8 degrees of alcohol.
Known since ancient times, it was - and still is - very popular in the Celtic area: Ireland, Normandy, Brittany: its production was very widespread even in northern Italy, today only active in some alpine areas.
Good to the taste, the cider also has digestive properties (thanks to its level of acidity), rebalancing of the intestinal tract, antioxidants (thanks to the polyphenols), remineralising (thanks to the high content of calcium and potassium), diuretic (thanks to the acid malic).
