Much Drinking Water Can Accelerate Weight Loss

It is said to increase the intake of water before eating food can increase satiety. That is why a study says people who are on a diet and consume more water faster, faster weight down.

Originally Rebecca Muckelbauer, a researcher from the Berlin School of Public Health, Charité University Medical Center Berlin, Germany and led a review of this claim as a researcher in the field of nutrition, people often ask him whether they should drink water to lose weight and in fact he do not know anything about it.

Drinking Water, Weight Loss Faster

To that end, Muckelbauer and his colleagues decided to observe the entire study related to body weight and water consumption. And there are 11 studies that fit the desired criteria researchers. Even three of which showed that increased water intake in dieters proven to accelerate weight loss.

One was conducted by Brenda Davy, an associate professor from Virginia Tech, USA. This study found that the middle-aged and elderly people who drank two glasses of water before meals to lose weight about 1.8 pounds more than those who do not drink extra water.

Meanwhile, another study says women who increase water consumption when the diet will lose more extra weight than women who consumed only one liter of water per day below.

Even so, none of the studies that can explain how water helps the people in these studies to lose weight.

But according to Davy, "The water can reduce hunger. And it might help them reduce their calorie intake."

Muckelbauer also agreed that increased satiety is the most plausible explanation behind this finding. Another possibility is a condition called "thermogenesis induced by water '.

"So it's own drinking water increases the release of the body's energy or water is also known to have the effect of energy consumption.'s Just that not many researchers observed," said Muckelbauer as reported by Reuters on Friday (07/05/2013).

However, from a survey conducted Muckelbauer known that people who drink more water is not necessarily more slender than that not a lot of drinking water.

In fact, some people who are obese or overweight are indeed consume more water than those with ideal weight.

"We have no evidence to conclude that increasing water intake will lose weight, but there are other benefits gained if we drink more water. Among decreased risk of diabetes and kidney stones," said Davy.

Findings Muckelbauer and his colleagues have published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.