:: Benefits of Vinegar

Benefits of Vinegar Go Beyond Adding Flavor to Food

Adding vinegar to foods like salad vegetables and French fries is believed to bring a healthy touch to the foods. Vinegar is known to offer several health and medical benefits.

The following paragraphs will briefly discuss some of the lesser known medical benefits of vinegar.

Benefits of Vinegar

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

Another of the many medical benefits of vinegar is that it helps relieve cramps, such as those along the calf or leg. Muscle cramps can be excruciating, and pain medications take some time to provide relief. Muscle cramps are often caused by low potassium levels in the body. Take one teaspoon of vinegar orally when suffering from muscle cramps to quickly raise potassium levels and help relieve cramps.

Some other medical benefits of vinegar include:

• relieving sunburn pain
  
• relieving jellyfish sting
  
• relieving earache
  

Whether you are cooking with vinegar or simply taking vinegar for cramp relief, you will enjoy some great benefits.

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