Hi everyone this is Monica Reinagel the nutrition diva here with your quick and

ready tips for eating well and feeling fabulous this month we're celebrating

the first anniversary of the nutrition diva podcast by giving away some great stuff.

I'll have some more details about that at the end of the episode.

But in the meantime, have you heard the news about vinegar?

Some new research lends support to the old

wives tale that vinegar burns fat. Before we all start pickling ourselves, let's take

a closer look at how this new research translates into real life. The idea of vinegar as

a weight loss aid has been around for ages. It's practically calorie free of course and

somehow it's easy to imagine the acidity in vinegar simply dissolving body fat on contact.

Of course, things don't really work that way.

Or do they?

Last month, some Japanese researchers found that subjects who ate a high-fat diet that also included lots of vinegar

ended up with 10% less body fat than subjects who ate the same diet minus the vinegar.

And just like that, vinegar's reputation as a weight loss miracle food has been given new

legs.

This study clearly demonstrates that French fries won't make you fat if you simply sprinkle a little malt

vinegar over them. Isn't science great? So how exactly does vinegar burn fat?

Acetic acid is the thing that gives vinegar its characteristic tart or sour quality.

And according to the Japanese researchers, this compound also does a couple of very special things in the body.

First, it activates certain genes that cause your body to store less fat around your

waist and instead the fat is deposited more evenly around the body.

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