Vinegar for Weight Loss? Chocolate Milk: Best for Recovery!
Drinking vinegar will not cause you to lose weight, prevent cancer or heart disease, lower high blood pressure or offer any other health benefit.
Vinegar is fine for salad dressings, as a preservative or a household cleaner, but it is not a medicine. One book claims that vinegar helps you to lose weight because oil and vinegar don't mix, so vinegar and body fat won't either. I hope you don't believe that.
Vinegar is about 95 percent water and 5 percent acetic acid. Because it is acidic, it prevents the growth of bacteria in a test tube and is used as a preservative to pickle a wide variety of foods.
However, it will not kill bacteria in humans, prevent infection or serve any other health function. Your stomach acid is much stronger than vinegar, so eating vinegar or any other acid food has no impact at all on the acidity of your stomach or any other organ in your body.
The only way vinegar will help you lose weight is if you use it as a dressing and eat lots of salads made with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans.
Chocolate Milk: Best for Recovery!
What should you eat after strenuous exercise or competition? Many studies have shown that eating a protein-rich meal as soon as possible after this hard workout hastens muscle recovery.
Intelligently increased workloads make an athlete stronger, and anything that helps you recover faster allows you to do more work. When you feel the burn during intense exercise, you are damaging your muscle fibers.
The pain that you feel 8 to 24 hours after a hard workout is due to muscle damage. It is now fairly well established that your muscles recover faster if you eat protein as soon as possible after a hard workout or competition.
You'll be happy to know that a study from Indiana University in Bloomington shows that chocolate milk helps athletes to recover faster from hard exercise than drinks that replaced only carbohydrates or fluid alone (International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, February 2006).
This study controlled the portion sizes, but other research has shown that athletes will drink most of the beverage that tastes best to them, so that may give chocolate milk its primary advantage.
Milk is full of protein, but so are, fish, shellfish, meat, chicken, whole grains and beans, and so forth. Eat any source of protein that tastes good to you.
By Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Vinegar is fine for salad dressings, as a preservative or a household cleaner, but it is not a medicine. One book claims that vinegar helps you to lose weight because oil and vinegar don't mix, so vinegar and body fat won't either. I hope you don't believe that.
Vinegar is about 95 percent water and 5 percent acetic acid. Because it is acidic, it prevents the growth of bacteria in a test tube and is used as a preservative to pickle a wide variety of foods.
However, it will not kill bacteria in humans, prevent infection or serve any other health function. Your stomach acid is much stronger than vinegar, so eating vinegar or any other acid food has no impact at all on the acidity of your stomach or any other organ in your body.
The only way vinegar will help you lose weight is if you use it as a dressing and eat lots of salads made with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans.
Chocolate Milk: Best for Recovery!
What should you eat after strenuous exercise or competition? Many studies have shown that eating a protein-rich meal as soon as possible after this hard workout hastens muscle recovery.
Intelligently increased workloads make an athlete stronger, and anything that helps you recover faster allows you to do more work. When you feel the burn during intense exercise, you are damaging your muscle fibers.
The pain that you feel 8 to 24 hours after a hard workout is due to muscle damage. It is now fairly well established that your muscles recover faster if you eat protein as soon as possible after a hard workout or competition.
You'll be happy to know that a study from Indiana University in Bloomington shows that chocolate milk helps athletes to recover faster from hard exercise than drinks that replaced only carbohydrates or fluid alone (International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, February 2006).
This study controlled the portion sizes, but other research has shown that athletes will drink most of the beverage that tastes best to them, so that may give chocolate milk its primary advantage.
Milk is full of protein, but so are, fish, shellfish, meat, chicken, whole grains and beans, and so forth. Eat any source of protein that tastes good to you.
By Dr. Gabe Mirkin
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