Discovered my daughter really likes pickles. Warms my heart. To me, it makes sense that eatting what our ancestors ate should be good for us; not in the popular sense of eating a cavemen diet, but eating what our personal ancestors ate. My Eastern Europeans ate lots of sauerkraut and pickles which you must go out of your way to incorporate - Martha Stewart doesn't do pickles. My Lithuanian grandfather would make lunch on a serving bowl-size serving of sauerkraut - the entire large can.
A chemistry teacher told me that I have a sour tooth rather than a sweet tooth, and it's true, I am much less tempted by sweets than those around me. My weight problem comes from fat and salt.
Vinegar is frequently sited as having beneficial properties. When I was newly married I would drink it with brewer's yeast. Can't say there was a direct correlation to having a better bod, but can't see vinegar hurting. For cooks, it really is the secret ingredient to bring life to stews and soups. As a child, my girlfriend and I would walk up to the stores and buy big dill pickles - a nice memory. So I stopped by the farmer's market and bought us a large pickle to share.
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