Drink Water To Burn Calories

To answer this age old question if drinking water helps you lose weight or burn more calories and the answer is... YES it does!. In a small study participants drank 500ml all at once and researchers found that they burned 25 calories more during a half hour period. The reason for this increase in metabolism had to do with warming the water up to body temperature. Yes I know that isn’t very much but over the course of a day it can account for a decent amount of calories burned from doing absolutely nothing. If you think 25 calories for every 2 cups of water, a normal person should be drinking 8 cups a day results in 100 calories burned from just drinking water. Not bad I think, considering it isn’t that hard to do if you space out the time between drinking water.

Some other interesting facts about drinking water:

• Drinking a 250 ml of water or more whenever you feel hungry and before a meal fills the stomach temporarily and makes you feel fuller and stop eating sooner.
• Breaking down body fat and body muscle during weight loss produces wastes that must be eliminated through the kidneys. Drinking enough water is important to keep the kidneys functioning to remove these wastes.
• Popular high-protein diets produce more waste products from digestion, let alone from breaking down stored fat. Kidney function is even more important when on a high-protein diet.
• Drinking more water does not "flush fat."

The study did find that it was important for an average adult to drink 8 glasses of water a day and that it helped with every single bodily function:

• regulate body temperature
• lubricates joints
• helps kidneys and liver flush out waste
• carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body
• Moistens tissues such as the eyes, mouth, nose
• Protects body organs and tissue
• Helps prevent constipation
• Helps dissolve minerals and other nutrients

Some effects of water deficiency are:

• Low blood pressure
• Clotting of blood
• Kidney malfunction
• Severe constipation

Water is necessary to life and its and easy way to help improve each and every day. Everyone should try to include more water in their diets to see the real benefits and maybe even lose some weight.