The merrriam-webster.com definition of vinegar is a colorless pungent liquid acid C2H4O2 that is the chief acid of vinegar and that is used especially in synthesis (as of plastics). This statement is from Wikipedia: Although it is classified as a weak acid, concentrated acetic acid is corrosive, and attacks the skin.
Just these couple of statements makes me leery of consuming vinegar but so often, I am asked why I don’t think vinegar is health food. The first thing I tell people is what I use vinegar for. I use vinegar to clean my distiller. The vinegar eats through the hard water deposits in my distiller. The second thing I use vinegar for is to kill the grass that grows in my landscaping (I save the vinegar that I have used to clean my distiller for this). These two things also give me second thoughts about consuming vinegar.
The real reason I don’t eat vinegar is this, one spring I as I walked into my garage, I noticed the smell of vinegar. I went to investigate and saw that I had left a bottle of vinegar (the one I used to pour on the grass that grows in my landscaping) sitting on the garage floor over the winter and it had frozen and overflowed the bottle. As I was cleaning up the mess, I noticed that the vinegar had eaten holes in the cement floor. It was then I really realized that vinegar was not something I ever wanted to eat.
If vinegar could make holes in concrete then what would it do to my body? Surely, the inside of me is a lot more delicate than cement.
I know that there are many claims that vinegar is a health food or if not a food something that people feel has health giving properties. But when I read statements such as these, “Dilute acetic acid, in the form of vinegar, is harmless. However, ingestion of stronger solutions is dangerous to human and animal life. It can cause severe damage to the digestive system and a potentially lethal change in the acidity of the blood.” I have to question them because how is it that a small dose of a poison does no harm but a large dose of the same poison can cause death.
Isn’t a poison a poison?
And should it matter what the dose is? To me saying that it is harmless to consume vinegar in small doses is the same as saying douse me with Agent Orange but be sure the dose isn’t to large because I don’t want to get sick. It doesn’t make sense to me how vinegar can be safe and dangerous at the same time.
During my studies to become certified as a natural health and holistic nutrition practitioner I learned that vinegar is dangerous to our health even when eaten in small amounts. Vinegar linked to endocrine disorders, calcium metabolic disorders, metabolic rate disorders, fat metabolism problems, body-weight issues, lethargy, headaches, and bulging of the eyes.
Even if I wasn’t aware of all of the above things, before I eat something I always try to remember to ask myself if I could make a whole meal of this (whatever I am about to eat). If I can answer yes, then the food is probably okay to eat but if I can’t make a meal out of it then it is something I shouldn’t eat. In this case, I would have to say that vinegar is not something I should eat.
True health is achieved by eating whole, ripe, fresh, raw fruits and vegetables because they provide the body with the correct nutrition to allow the body to heal itself. If I follow this plan then I don’t need to rely on something to try to fix my health, I will naturally achieve true health.
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