Benefits of Vinegar Go Beyond Adding Flavor to Food

Adding vinegar to different foods, such as salad vegetables or French fries at the carnival, has been publicly deemed to provide healthy benefits to one's body.

But there are many medical benefits of vinegar that many people do not realize. The following paragraphs will briefly discuss some of the more unknown medical benefits of vinegar.

Since vinegar contains agents proven to help kill bacteria and fungus, one of the medical benefits of vinegar is it can help cure athlete's foot and other foot fungus. Soaking your feet in vinegar, just once a day, will help change the PH levels in your skin so that fungus cannot grow. Bacterial killing agents found in vinegar, will help kill the existing bacteria and fungus.

Another one of the many medical benefits of vinegar is it can help relieve cramps- such as a calf or leg cramp. Muscle cramps can be excruciating, and pain medications can take a while to take effect. Very often muscle cramps are caused by low potassium levels in the body. Taking one teaspoon of vinegar orally when you are suffering from any type of muscle cramps will quickly cause your potassium level to rise and help relieve the cramps.

Some other medical benefits of vinegar include:

  • relieving sunburn pain

  • relieving jellyfish stings

  • relieving earache pain


So whether you are cooking with vinegar or simply taking vinegar to assist with cramp relief, you are guaranteed to get some kind of benefit from this wonderful cooking agent! 

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