Apple Cider Vinegar, that wonderful old-timers home remedy, cures more ailments than any other folk remedy. The number of reported cures from drinking Apple Cider Vinegar are numerous. They include cures for allergies (including pet, food and environmental), sinus infections, acne, high cholesterol, flu, chronic fatigue, candida, acid reflux, sore throats, contact dermatitis, arthritis, and gout. Recently, the focus of Apple Cider Vinegar has been on its use in dieting and weight control.

Different from the refined and distilled vinegars usually found in supermarkets, Natural Apple Cider Vinegar is made from fresh, crushed, organically grown apples and allowed to mature in wooden barrels, which boosts its natural fermentation qualities. When mature, it contains a web-like substance which becomes visible when the rich brownish liquid is held to the light. 

The health benefits of apple cider vinegar have been promoted by many well-known authors such as Dr Jarvis, Paul C. Bragg and Patricia Bragg.  D.C. Jarvis, a Vermont country doctor, noted that apple cider vinegar was a respected home remedy used by many Vermonters to successfully treat a number of common ailments and nagging aches and pains. He was so impressed that he went on to write a book on his observations and experimentations with home remedies, especially apple cider vinegar, and its beneficial effects on both people and farm animals.

Weight Loss

Appetite Suppressant

Apple cider vinegar (ACV) can act as an appetite suppressant.

Some speculate that pectin, the water soluble fiber found in apples and ACV, absorbs water and fills the stomach a little before each meal which helps to suppress your appetite and lead to effective weight loss. It has also been suggested that ACV reduces the craving for sweets and foods containing salt and fat. This is more than just a weight loss theory since recent studies on vinegar as an appetite suppressant have been conducted by a team of Swedish scientists from Lund university. They have shown that vinegar taken in liquid form before a meal, helps dieters eat less.

Apple cider vinegar increases your body's metabolism thus burning more calories.
The acetic acid in ACV can help release iron in the foods you eat and make it more available for oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and oxygen-attracting myoglobin.
The more iron absorbed, the greater the oxygen utilized and the greater the energy consumed. This results in more weight loss.

While we are at rest, the body's metabolism is kept going by a substance called growth hormone released by the pituitary gland. Apple cider vinegar helps with the digestion of protein, which is the building block of growth hormone. A higher level of protein breakdown makes it more likely that growth hormone will be produced, thus elevating your metabolism while you sleep. In so doing, it contributes to weight loss.

Protein is also needed for the production of insulin, which is necessary for converting glucose to energy and maintaining an active metabolism. ACV can raise your metabolic rate by increasing the body's ability to utilize proteins for insulin production.

Apple cider vinegar improves digestion which in turn reduces the amount of time that fats remain in the digestive tract. The less time fats are present in the digestive tract, the less fats will be absorbed and the greater the weight loss.

According to the last one of these weight loss theories, the potassium in apple cider vinegar helps to balance the sodium in your diet, and to minimize retained fluid. Sodium, a major cause of fluid retention, is obtained in large amounts from the salt in processed foods. Balancing the sodium in the diet lessens water retention and results in reduced body weight.

Animals love apple cider vinegar

Apple cider vinegar benefits for our pets, from cats and dogs to pigeons and parrots to cows and horses, are numerous. It can be used as a daily health tonic, to deter insects such as mosquitoes, fleas and tics, to relieve skin conditions, and even to take away the smell of skunk.

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