Vinegar shot, anyone?
While a spoonful of sugar can help the medicine go down, experts say a spoonful of vinegar can be the key to weight management and an overall benefit to the body.
In an episode of the Diary Of A CEO podcast, French biochemist and best-selling author Jessie Inchauspé, also known as the Glucose Goddess, extolled the purifying virtues of common kitchen ingredients, along with a few other tricks cheap and easy for health.
In addition to eating a hearty breakfast and eating vegetables first, Inchauspé asked diners to down a tablespoon of vinegar, diluted in a large glass of water, 10 minutes before tucking into their biggest meal. the day.
According to the health guru, vinegar can effectively reduce blood sugar levels, cholesterol and visceral fat, or belly fat.
Inchauspé, whose focus is nutrition and glucose management, says: “Vinegar contains acetic acid, which interacts with your digestive enzymes and reduces the rise in glucose in your meal by up to 30% without any effort.”
As The Post previously reported, glucose has a profound effect on how our bodies look and feel.
Glucose, otherwise known as blood sugar, naturally rises and falls throughout the day. Coupled with modern unhealthy eating habits, this can create a “glucose roller coaster” with rapid spikes followed by rapid dips, leading to what is colloquially known as a sugar high: Feeling wired, then nervous and exhausted.
Inchauspé promises that her vinegar ritual can combat those effects and give you the most health bang for your proverbial buck.
“If you want an extremely low-effort, albeit not very tasty, try it, go for it,” she says. “See how you feel with a smaller tip and a smaller bump, less cravings and less fatigue.”
For a healthy non-diabetic, fasting blood glucose levels should be less than 100 mg/dL; two hours after eating, it should be below 140.
But even “healthy” foods can lead to significant spikes: A large portion of fruit can cause your blood sugar to rise as much as 60 mg/dL above your baseline. While it can return to normal within the next two hours, this surge, Inchauspé said, can lead to feelings of fatigue — as well as wreak havoc on the body’s internals.
Why?
Glucose provides an immediate source of energy, which is great if you’re planning to run a marathon after a nice, high-carb pasta dinner, but if you’re not, the hormone insulin will go to work to transform the glucose into fatty acids. which are then stored as fat.
Elsewhere in the episode, Inchauspé urged people to eat their vegetables first as fiber breaks down slowly in the digestive system – while starch is quickly converted to glucose, leading to a boost.
Eating fiber first slows down the rate at which you digest starch, so glucose flows into your bloodstream more slowly than if you had eaten the same foods in the reverse order.
A veg-first approach also lends itself to satiety, reducing the likelihood of mindless eating.
When it comes to the Inchauspé vinegar hack, the water part of the equation is essential as it dilutes the vinegar and protects your whites from an onset of acidity.
As for the type of vinegar to use, Inchauspé says anything will do—but apple cider vinegar might be tastier.
Previous research found that drinking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar before eating helped overweight people lose up to 18 pounds in just three months.
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