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Are the health claims about Apple cider vinegar true? (2016)
- tanseydavid 6y agoApple fan-bois will drink anything. /sarc
- Arbalest 6y agoDespite one correlation, Betteridge's law of headlines still applies. 1 health benefit does not justify all the other claims made frequently.
- jfengel 6y agoWhat I really want is to get the apple-cider-vinegar fans together with the alkaline-diet fans. Maybe we can get them to try both at once, and explode. /Yes, I know it doesn't work that way.
- rkhassen9 6y agoYou’d think this would be the headline: In neither the placebo nor the malt vinegar group was there any change. But those consuming cider vinegar saw an average 13% reduction in total cholesterol, with a strikingly large reduction in triglycerides (a form of fat). And this was a particularly impressive finding because our volunteers were all healthy at the start, with normal cholesterol levels. "Bringing cholesterol levels down like this", Dr Brown told me, "can significantly reduce your chances of having a heart attack in the future. So we were really excited to see that finding."