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Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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Vinegar as a slimming aid
If you consume acetic acid [structural formula shown below] you'll lose a little weight, but nothing to write home about. Acetic acid is not a body-recompositioning supplement. You'll be better off doing a minimal amount of cardio training extra.
Mizkan produces apple cider vinegar, like the bottle pictured above. The researchers gave 155 test subjects either 0 [placebo], 15 [low dose] or 30 ml [high dose] every day. These amounts correspond to 0, 750 or 1500 mg acetic acid. The subjects mixed the acetic acid with half a litre of water, and drank 250 ml after breakfast and 250 ml after lunch.
Looks like good stuff, you'd think. But if you look through the article for figures indicating exactly how much fat and lean body mass the subjects lost, you don't find them. What you do find are the figures listed below.
If your social life is as non-existent as ours, you'll have time to get out your calculator and come up with the figures in the table below.
If you lose weight just by eating less, and without taking supplements, then 65 percent of the weight you lose will be fat and the rest lean body mass. That's a rule of thumb. So the Japanese results were nothing special. If you’re going to use a supplement to lose weight, the least you can expect is that it will protect your lean body mass.
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