Water helps weightloss.... some great info!!!

megsta21
megsta21 Posts: 506 Member
edited September 21 in Food and Nutrition
We all know that expensive diets, and supplements and plans are no match for the cost and efficiency of water per a new study that came out this week. The reason water works so well for weight loss is it fills up the stomach with a substance that has zero calories.

Water does so much more than make weight loss much simpler and attainable.
Water is crucial to your health. It makes up, on average, 60 percent of your body weight. Every system in your body depends on water. In fact, your muscles consist of 75% water, the brain is 90% of water and your blood is over 80% water.

Water is essential to how the body works. It helps transports nutrients and oxygen into cells, aids with metabolism, regulates body temperature, it protect vital organs, detoxifies and can even reduce fatigue.

Water does indeed help weight los if we drink 2 cups before each meal however; we need to look at foods that have high water content because they too can help with weight loss. For instance, cucumbers are 97% water, tomatoes and zucchini are 95% water, peaches and oranges are 87% water and

It doesn’t stop there either. Some dry ingredients are also a good source of fluid. These are the foods that act like sponges as they cook, such as beans, grains and pasta. A cup of red kidney beans is 77% water.

In the study funded by the Institute for Public Health and Water Research the challenge to the water-before-meals weight-loss strategy is getting people to do it. Carla Wolper, an assistant professor in the Eating Disorders Center at Columbia University . “The question is do people continue to drink the water in a non-study situation?" Wolper said. "We know there are a lot of simple things people could do to lose weight. Clinical trials have shown if people write down what they eat, they lost twice as much weight. Yet it's very hard to get people to write down what they eat. Or, if people would reduce portions just a little bit, they would lose weight. But people don't do it."

So whether you drink your water, or eat your water intake, this wonderful liquid called water, can really aid in weight loss and so much more.

Part 2

Researchers from the American Chemical Society have proven that water can help with weight loss. Pounds lost in a group of study participants who drank water were compared to non-water drinkers in a first clinical trial showing the benefits for fighting obesity.

Over a twelve week period, and combined with a low calorie diet, water drinkers lost 4.5 pounds more than a control group of 48 study participants – 15.5 and 11 pounds respectively.

Water and Weight Loss no Longer Folklore
Brenda Davy, Ph.D., senior author on the study says, “We found in earlier studies that middle aged and older people who drank two cups of water right before eating a meal ate between 75 and 90 fewer calories during that meal. In this recent study, we found that over the course of 12 weeks, dieters who drank water before meals, three times per day, lost about 5 pounds more than dieters who did not increase their water intake.”

Davey says for the first time water has been proven effective for weight loss, pointing out that people knew it, but the benefits had never been shown in a randomized controlled clinical trial - "in spite of it being such a popular idea for those who need to lose weight..."

She says the reason for eating less is probably because water fills you up. Diet soda or other beverages might do the same thing. She cautions against sugary drinks or drinks with high fructose corn syrup because of the excess calories.

“People should drink more water and less sugary, high-calorie drinks. It’s a simple way to facilitate weight management”, but Davy cautions against drinking too much that could lead to water intoxication.

Water has zero calories and makes people feel fuller, curbing the appetite before meals. Men should consume 13 cups of beverages daily, and women 9, though Davy says no one really has set a standard – or you can drink when you’re thirsty.

Thirsty or not, drinking water before a meal is confirmed to help with weight loss. Two glasses of water before a meal, especially instead of a sugary drink, could help fight obesity, proven for the first time in a "gold standard" study.

Sourced from: www.emaxhealth.com

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