Water Education - Water and Health

The Role of Water in Dieting

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Drinking water may be the most important piece of the weight loss puzzle. let us briefly go over the importance of water for our body in general. Water helps eliminate toxins through urination, carries nutrients to cells, and prevents dehydration. To make the process of burning calories efficient, an adequate supply of water is required. Meanwhile, water helps the body metabolize and burn fat. Water plays a major role in how every single cell, tissue, and organ in our body operates and is important to almost every bodily function.

Water Dieting

Water contains no calories, fat, or cholesterol and is low in sodium. Water is a natural appetite suppressant, and it helps the body to metabolize fat. Current research shows that low water intake yields an increase in fat deposits. Conversely, high water intake reduces the number of fat deposits. Without enough water, the kidneys will not function properly. As a result, some of their workloads are pushed off onto the liver, in turn preventing the liver from operating at peak levels.

How does all this tie into weight loss? Because metabolizing fat is a primary function of the liver, and because the liver can't function at peak levels when taking on the added workload from the kidneys, less body fat is metabolized and more is stored. If the liver does not have sufficient water it cannot reach total productivity and will not metabolize fat efficiently, leading fat to store in the body. This leads to either weight gain or reaching a plateau of weight loss. To increase your ability to metabolize fat and lose weight, you should drink plenty of clean water to improve your kidney and liver functions.

Not drinking enough can make you gain weight!

When your body is not getting enough water it holds on to what it has, resulting in water retention. As a simple survival mechanism, your body has a tendency to hold onto and store what it doesn’t think it will get in the future. Once your body recognizes that it is getting a steady supply of water it will release the water weight it has been holding. Water weight is stored in your waist, face, and ankles and is released when there is no longer a reason for your body to store it.

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