Drink Water to Lose Weight
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Does drinking water help you lose weight? Yes! Here’s how:
Recent research in hydration science reveals that both the temperature of water and when it’s consumed trigger astonishing weight loss.
Although you’ve likely heard the advice to drink more water to lose weight, it’s crucial to employ this little-known approach: “The secret is to alternate drinking water of different temperatures- hot, lukewarm and cold- throughout the day since each of these temperatures plays a different role in weight regulation,” explains Barbara Hendel, M.D., coauthor of Water & Salt (Natural Resources, 2003).
In fact, alternating three water temperatures to capitalize on the unique benefits of each could make your body’s weight loss systems up to 50 percent more effective, allowing you to easily lose up to 10 pounds per week, according to research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. That’s a total loss of 30 pounds or more in a month.
“Water’s importance is often overlooked, yet it is the key to fast, hassle-free, lasting weight loss”, says Christopher Vasey, N.D., author of The Water Prescription (Healing Arts Press, 2006).
How drinking water in different-temperatures speeds up weight loss in unique ways:
1. Hot water triggers a body-wide detox. When cellular levels of toxins rise, your body concentrates them in the liver, lymph system, intestines and skin in an effort to speed their excretion, according to researchers at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Problem is, the stored toxins end up slowing down metabolism.
To the rescue: hot water. By flooding the GI tract with heat, it promotes peristalsis- muscle contractions that encourage the movement of toxins from the liver and lymph system into the digestive tract, stimulating their elimination from the body, suggests research at the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in San Rafael, California. “Hot water also makes your pores open slightly,” adds Dr. Hendel. “This allows extra toxins stored in skin tissue to evaporate into the air”.
2. Lukewarm water suppresses appetite. When lukewarm water enters the stomach, the organ registers fullness more quickly than with hot or cold water. “Lukewarm water doesn’t set off the drastic hot/cold alarm signals in the brain, so it’s easier to gulp down a full glass at once,” says Dr. Hendel.
This action causes the stomach to expand rapidly, stimulating the brain’s vagus nerve to turn off hunger pangs, she explains. Room-temperature water is also more rapidly absorbed by the stomach lining, so it doesn’t stall the digestive process the way liquids of other temperatures can.
The result: a quicker stabilization of blood sugar- which shuts down food cravings, adds Dr. Hendel.
3. Cold water gives your body a work out. Your metabolic rate jumps as much as 3 percent within 10 minutes of finishing a glass of cold water, and it stays elevated for 30 minutes thereafter, say experts at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
The reason: Your digestive tract has to work harder to heat cold water before the water can be absorbed and used by cells, explains Dr. Vasey. “This process takes an enormous amount of energy, which your body derives by breaking down food and fat to release their stored calories.”
Hydration produces amazing benefits:
- mental clarity increases by 20% in 30 minutes
- Late night hunger pangs disappear
- Energy levels increase by 89% in 24 hours
- Blue moods lift and sleep improves in 72 hours
- Exercise endurance increases in 4 days
- Chronic back pain end in 1 week
- Joint pain eases in 2 weeks
- Peptic ulcers heal in 3 weeks
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3 comments: Responses to “ Drink Water to Lose Weight ”
By jenie=) on September 20, 2010 at 9:08 PM
this is a great post...well explained! i've always known that water intake speeds up metabolism but the water temperature is kindda new to me. can you give me your resources on the water temp? i'd love to have further research on this too...really good article dear.
thanks!
By kikat on September 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM
Hi jenie, I read it on First magazine, it's an awesome mag for women. =) I had personally tried the lemon water and cold water when I was trying to lose weight cause I gained a lot in 2006 and again in 2009. Hope this will also help those folks out there who want to lose weight.. thanks for visiting jen =)
By Sarah on October 19, 2010 at 6:43 PM
Water is so important to our health especially since our bodies are made up of about 70% of water. However I didn't know about drinking different temperature water to increase weight loss. I can't wait to try this.
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