Apple Cider Vinegar 🍎 ?????

What health benefits do you feel you get from ACV?

For the damage to tooth enamel, this is true for any acidic food/drink that you might have (fizzy drinks, lemons, limes, vinegar based salad dressings, etc). It is not immediate, but the effects are cumulative. Good oral hygiene will help to negate the effects of the acidic foods (just like with sugary foods).

earlnabby wrote: »

Cool. We haven't had any ACV threads in a while. Good reminder for everyone with spinach growing in their garden that spinach salad with hot bacon dressing is the best use of ACV invented.

Now this is good advice right here right now.

Hah, I got 5 "Disagree's" on my post. But you can't disagree with the fact that she lost 50lbs and I can tell you that she never logged a single meal.

And another thing: she never once logged into this forum!

harper16 wrote: »

The ACV had nothing to do with her weight loss.

I respectfully disagree. If ACV gave her even a psychological boost, then it had "something to do with her weight loss."

In fact, she likes the taste of water with ACV and lemon, which makes it easier for her to drink. (And she does drink a lot of it!)

RelCanonical wrote: »

I'm going to start believing that eating whole pizzas everyday helps me lose weight. I'll think real hard, it'll surely work, right? Right?

Well, she also had the "no cow products" rule and pretty strict rules about breads.

In case it's not obvious to everyone here, these are techniques to get you to eat less in relative comfort. She knew it, I knew it, her dietitian knew it, we all know it, so no reason to get snippy. No one should think it's magic. But there's also no reason to assume it's not helpful.

Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »

harper16 wrote: »

How many ounces of ACV, and how much lemon?

24oz water + 1 tbs ACV + 1/4 lemon squeeze

That's how my wife does it, anyway. T'won't kill you.

Oh. I have no plans to try it. I tried ACV once and ended up throwing up all over my kitchen floor.

Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »

@RelCanonical : I nominate you to try it for a while and report back. 24oz of water + ACV + lemon before every meal for a month.

@RelCanonical need not bother.

I drank ACV daily for weeks at a time while losing weight (and logging meticulously). I didn't drink ACV ever for other weeks at a time while also losing and similarly logging.

There was zip, zero, no, nada difference in weight loss rate during the two time periods. I noticed no difference in appetite or cravings. (Some people do. Even research says so, maybe/kinda. And there's minor/mixed research evidence of other benefits, mostly pretty tepid stuff. https://examine.com/supplements/acv/ ).

But who am I to deny others their psychological/placebo effects? (Note: Placebo effects are not "all in your head", necessarily. They can be physical. They're weird.)

(I was drinking the ACV for reasons having nothing to do with weight management, BTW.)

And yes, many common beverages (various juices, teas, sports drinks, sodas/pops) are more acidic than ACV at its standard commercial strength, even undiluted. Diluting it with water makes it even less acidic. (That doesn't mean it's harmless, especially in a cumulative way, it just means it's not especially harmful compared to other drinks. There's an ADA report on the other commercial beverages, and Google-able info about ACV pH, both of which I'd link here as I have on probably a dozen other threads, if I weren't so lazy and tired of this whole bleep subject.)

I've read some reports of damage from ACV supplements, however, because they can be much more concentrated. Check that out before you dive in.

RelCanonical wrote: »

I think I'm going to go drink some apple cider whiskey.

FWIW, there are some excellent mixers based on ACV and various spices/extracts. Yum! Our (great-?)grandparents made something called "shrub" that was essentially a flavored vinegar concentrate, to be mixed with water (or whiskey and water ), as a refreshing drink.