Drink Water, Lose Weight.

The search for a no-fail weight-loss
solution is right up there with
pursuing of the Fountain of Youth.
The sheer number of different diets
out there is staggering. That said,
among the multitude of weight-loss
ideas, this one seems like a good
choice to me. As Discovery News
reports , a study has found that
drinking water prior to meals can
help people lose an average of nearly
five pounds.
The study, done by scientists at
Virginia Tech , featured 48 adults
between the ages of 55 and 75 over a
12-week period. Twenty-four of the
adults were on a low-calorie diet and
also drank two glasses of water prior
to each meal, while the other 24 had
the same diet and got water as well,
but weren’t told specifically when to
drink it. At the end of the study,
people in the first group had lost an
average of about 15.5 pounds, as
opposed to the average of 11 pounds
people in the second group shed. In
addition, a year after the study, those
who drank the water prior to the
meals were doing a better job
keeping the weight off.
One thing to keep in mind is that the
low-calorie diet these people were
instructed to keep ranged between
1,200 and 1,500 calories per day, and
that range could have something to
do with the weight loss difference.
But, see, that’s the point of drinking
more water; it helps fill you up,
without calories, so when you have
your meal, you don’t feel the need to
eat as much.
The results could also be age-
specific. As the article notes, as you
age, the digestive process slows
down, meaning you feel full longer
the older you are. But, as Brenda
Davy, one of the study’s researchers,
notes, drinking more water could still
help in dieting, no matter what your
age. That’s because it can increase
metabolism, thus helping to burn
more calories, or it can act as a
replacement for other drinks that
have calories, sugar or, well, both.

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