Does Vinegar Burn Fat?

     Vinegar has long been touted as a weight loss aid. It is practically calorie free and it seems like it would have a strong effect on the body in helping to melt away pounds.

There have been vocal advocates of vinegar as a weight loss aid. Among them are Japanese researchers who recently found that subjects who ate a very high fat diet who also ate lots of vinegar actually had 10% less body fat than those who ate the same diet without the vinegar.

Unfortunately, the Japanese study used mice, not humans. Animal research is important, but it is a stretch at best to assume that the same result would occur in humans. To approach the dosage used in this study, you would have to consume about 20 oz. of vinegar per day, a pretty unrealistic amount.

Although this Japanese study isn抰 a very reliable source of information on the benefits of vinegar, there is evidence that it does in fact provide some significant health benefits. It contains acetic acid, a pungent liquid that gives vinegar its strong acidic taste. Acetic acid is know for its ability to activate certain genes that tell your body to store less weight around your waist and deposit it more evenly throughout the body. It seems to increase thermogenesis to heighten the heat and burning power in the body. This is the process that allows your body to metabolize food quicker and burn fat.

Because its main ingredient is acetic acid, it would seem like vinegar can really help with weight loss. Unfortunately, it is likely that the magnitude of the thermogenesis that it creates would probably be too little to register in a human. If you抮e looking to vinegar as a powerful thermogenic fat burner, you抮e probably out of luck.

There may be a way, however, that vinegar actually works as a tool for weight loss. Recent studies in humans have shown that adding vinegar to a meal may actually slow down how fast carbohydrates are converted to sugar in the body. This actually works as an appetite suppressant and may be something that helps to prevent diabetes. If you slow down the process of converting sugar, you are essentially allowing your body more time to burn fat before it can be stored. So there may be some benefits to using vinegar as a part of your daily diet. But you shouldn抰 turn to it as a miracle weight loss solution.

If you are really looking for thermogenic fat burning power, it would be a lot smarter to try a safe supplement like a thermogenic or lipotropic fat burner. Thermogenic fat burners will increase your metabolism and help you burn fat faster, even while you sleep. The effectively increase the temperature at which your body burns fat. Lipotropic Fat Burners increase your body抯 metabolism to burn fat too, and also aid you in removing or transporting fat out of your body. Lipotropics are substances that prevent an abnormal accumulation of fat in the liver.

A bit of vinegar can be helpful, but for real fat burning, stick to the supplements that really work.

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