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Apple cider vinegar is ideal for vegans. Vegan apple cider vinegar is made by fermenting crushed apple. The first stage is alcohol fermentation and then, acetobacter bacteria feed on the remaining sugar, turning the alcohol into vinegar. For the best possible results, organic apples will be used, thereby adding to the properties of the vinegar. There are no animal byproducts used when producing vegan apple cider vinegar as there sometimes are in other fermented liquids such as beer and wine. This means that apple cider vinegar is a true vegan product and has a number of important uses in a...

Apple cider vinegar has been a remedy for poor health for literally thousands of years, it was even used by Roman soldiers to support vitality during the conquests of foreign lands. But why? What makes apple cider vinegar so good for you and how can it promote weight loss? The key is acetic acid which is the primary ingredient that develops during the fermentation process. Acetic acid is a short-chain fatty acid and it has been proven by medical researchers such as Ostman et al. to reduce the metabolic response to food. What this means is a lower blood glucose...

Bloating is never a good time and can often seem to strike randomly and without warning. For some it’s a rare occurrence but for others it often seems to strike daily after almost every meal. "Very quickly it can make you look like you have a bit of a pooch. There's an enlargement of the abdomen and a sensation of distention," explains Dr. Kyle Staller, a gastroenterologist at Harvard. It’s unpredictability is a result of the complexity of the digestive system, with so many variables at play and with most capable of causing bloating it’s hard to track exactly what...

‘You can alter your metabolism.’ True or false? Let’s just say it’s complicated. Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the amount of calories your body naturally burns everyday to carry out the essential chemical processes needed to survive. What it doesn’t include, however, is additional calories burned through exercise and general daily movement. BMR depends on a number of factors: height, age, weight, gender but also relies on a couple of key fundamental truths.   The first truth is that muscle burns more calories than fat. This is because muscle tissue requires more energy to maintain than fat tissue. This...