Calorie-free out of the pipe

The idea is tantalising: If you drink a lot of water during your diet, you loose weight more rapidly. German scientists now have found out that this can absolutely be taken seriously.

Two-thirds of a human being consists of water. In the body it is distributed for example over the blood and the lymph fluid. Interesting is the fact that the brain also contains a lot of water – our distributing centre is downright floating. The central organ for the water balance is the kidney. It filters about 1,700 litres of blood per day and permanently disposes of decomposition products evolving from metabolism through the urine.

Power for the metabolism

For people who are about to start tackling the body fat the following information should be of interest: Researchers of the Charité in Berlin and the “Institut für Ernährungsforschung Potsdam-Rehbrücke” (German Institute of Human Nutrition) have found out that the consumption of tap water can be supportive for diets. They studied on overweight test persons the effect of drinking tap water on the metabolism. The researchers established that the consumption of 1.5 to 2 litres of water a day could elevate the energy exchange of 100 kilocalories. Projected on a year, this would be 36,500 kilocalories. This corresponds to 4 to 5 kilograms of adipose tissue.  

Maybe you already have tested the effect of drinking a glass of water before a meal. The calorie-free drink fills the stomach and tricks the body with the feeling that there is not too much space in the stomach. Of course this is not just good advice for loosing weight but also for staying slender.

Water purges

Who wants to reduce weight successfully naturally wants to loose the unloved fat pads. However fat is not only the stock for hard times but also for a set of fat-soluble substances like for example toxic elements that mostly appear in food only in tiny amounts and accumulate  over months and years  in the adipose tissue. If the diet is successful and the fat pads can be reduced those toxic elements reach the blood circulation and have to be disposed. In its function as refuse disposal service the kidney is thankful for being supported with a lot of fluid. By this way it can filter alien substances much better out of the blood. Therefore doctors again and again advise to drink regularly calorie-free beverages in the process of loosing weight.

The more the merrier

For balancing the fluid loss, doctors advice to drink at least 1.5 litres of water daily. Of course it may and has to be more during the summer when tropical temperatures make you break out in sweat. The same applies for athletes and people going to the sauna. If the water balance is not levelled, the ability to concentrate quickly decreases and the efficiency reduces. A lot of pure water from within also helps to provide dry skin with fluid. If you want to be really certain that the blue element out of the tap is as pure as possible then you can revert to water filtration. Cola or lemonades are rather inapt to satisfy one's thirst lastingly and also stresses the metabolism.