Sunday, December 21, 2008

Good Health and Vinegar

By Tyson B Stevenson

If you think trying to improve your health with vinegar is a new idea then you would be totally wrong, as it has been used in folk medicine for many years to promote health and well being in animals and humans alike. In fact it has been used in one form or another for more than ten thousand years and in this time has played an important role as a condiment, sanitizer, preservative, antiseptic, medicine and beauty aid.

Improving your health with vinegar is easy. Vinegar, when naturally fermented contains no fat, has low salt content and a rich source of trace elements, vitamins and minerals including sulphur, magnesium, iron, calcium, phosphorus plus enzymes. All in all a natural way to approach a feeling of wellness.

When buying vinegar to improve your health read the labels and look for the words organic, pure, unfiltered or aged in wood. These varieties are more likely to be found in a health food shop rather than on the supermarket shelves, and come at a higher cost. But paying a higher cost ensures that you stay away from diluted, highly filtered, over processed and over heated brands. Everyone by now knows and loves the taste of the sweet dark, expensive balsamic vinegars.

There are many types of vinegar with different flavors and aromas and personally I prefer the taste of the sweet dark, expensive balsamic vinegars to those found in the supermarket. One of the most nutritious vinegars is apple cider vinegar, but vinegar can also be made from potatoes, melons, honey, molasses, beets, sorghum, maple syrup, cactus, grapes and coconuts.

Greek and Roman soldiers have documented vinegar as a source of power and strength, so did Japanese Samurai warriors. during the Stone Age vinegar was used as a means of getting healthy and it is excellent for digesting high protein meals and heavy foods. This aide to digestion may explain why it is a favourite with "Fish and Chips" one of the favoured foods in our modern day diet.

You can also use vinegar to improve your health in many other ways and these will be looked at further in the articles to come: Killing bacterial and fungal infections As a hair rinse to treat seborrhea and dandruff Enzymes to improve your gallbladder health As a remedy for indigestion and liver stagnation For the treatment of osteoporosis, memory loss and arthritis In a footbath to soften calluses and relieve athlete's foot Children's ear infections Regulate Blood pressure. Weight loss

If you are a keen gardener, you can also improve your health with vinegar by using it as a preventative measure against backache especially as vinegar will kill those prolific nuisance weeds like Clover, Dandelion, Thistle and Ragweed thus easing the strain on your back by not having to wrestle with stubborn weeds. The multiple health benefits abound when you use vinegar to get rid of weeds because the chemicals found in many synthetic weed killers can be extremely dangerous to our pets, the wildlife in our gardens, and not to forget, to us and our children.

If you are interested in organic gardening then vinegar is considered biodegradable and therefore comes into this category. I have it on good authority that there is no need to worry Worried about the PH levels in your soil when using vinegar? Well there is no need, because although vinegar decreases PH levels it is an organic substance and it will restore to its original PH within two days.

While you can improve your health with vinegar in lots of ways, you can also improve the health of your garden by keeping it weed free and thriving and weed pulling by hand and the backache of pulling each weed will be a thing of the past. - 16004

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