Drink vinegar to lose weight? 3 small cups of vinegar = 1 bowl of rice

Can drinking vinegar help you lose weight? Be careful or you may end up getting fatter instead of losing weight! Nutritionists point out that although drinking vinegar can moderately adjust the body's pH value, most of the vinegars advertised as health-promoting on the market contain fructose and sugar. On average, one small cup of 30CC fruit vinegar, or apple cider vinegar, contains more than 70 calories. If you drink three small cups in a row, it is equivalent to the calories of a bowl of white rice. Therefore, drinking vinegar in moderation is the correct way to maintain health.

Drinking vinegar for health preservation has become a fashionable trend in China, but nutritionists are reserved about drinking vinegar for weight loss. (Photography by Huang Zhiwen)

Nutritionist Wang Zinan from the Special Nutrition Counseling Clinic at Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital pointed out that many obese people try to lose weight by drinking vinegar, but the more they drink, the fatter they get. Although vinegar contains amino acids and organic acids, which can promote the formation of peracidified lipids in the body and are beneficial to balancing the body's acidity and alkalinity, this peracidified lipid is not easy to excrete and can easily cause arteriosclerosis, thereby causing vascular diseases. It is not only unhelpful in dissolving fat, but can also cause harm to your health.

Drinking vinegar is not easy to lose weight, it's all because of sugar

Currently, there are many kinds of vinegar sold in supermarkets, including alcohol vinegar, meal vinegar, brown rice vinegar, rice vinegar, grain vinegar, apple vinegar, wine vinegar, imperial vinegar, etc. You can choose according to your preference. From the taste point of view, consumers prefer to drink some aromatic and delicious apple cider vinegar and wine vinegar, but because these vinegars are made from fruit juice, they contain very high sugar content, which is contrary to the purpose of weight loss.

In addition, if analyzed according to the pH value of the body, most people's obesity is acidic obesity, so drinking vinegar will not help lose weight, but it does have a certain effect on people with alkaline obesity. However, long-term use can easily lead to nutritional imbalance and endanger health. Therefore, drinking vinegar to lose weight is a wrong myth and is not suitable for everyone.

4 Key Points for Drinking Vinegar in a Healthy Way

1. Don’t drink vinegar on an empty stomach:

No matter how strong your stomach and intestines are, it is not suitable to drink vinegar on an empty stomach, so as to avoid stimulating excessive secretion of stomach acid and damaging the stomach wall. Drinking vinegar between meals or one hour after a meal will be less irritating to the stomach and intestines and aid digestion.

2. Up to 1 cup of diluted vinegar per day:

Eating a small amount of vinegar is fine, but drinking a large amount of vinegar can easily irritate the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, commercially available fruit vinegar or other vinegar drinks often contain a lot of sugar. If you drink vinegar instead of water, it can easily add a lot of calories, which is more detrimental to weight control.

3. People with gastrointestinal disorders should eat less vinegar:

Patients with thin stomach walls, excessive gastric acid secretion, gastric ulcers, and duodenal ulcers should limit the amount of vinegar they eat, and should not try to drink vinegar.

4. Pay attention to the sodium content in vinegar:

There are many varieties of vinegar nowadays. Black vinegar and sushi vinegar, for example, have high sodium content. 100 grams of black vinegar contains 1500 to 2000 mg of sodium. 5 teaspoons of black vinegar is equivalent to 1 teaspoon of 5 grams of salt. Hypertensive patients should limit their use. In addition, black vinegar also contains more potassium and is not suitable for kidney patients.