Water: How 8 Glasses A Day Keeps
Fat Away
Water
suppresses the appetite naturally and helps the body metabolize fat.
Studies have
shown that a decrease in water intake will cause fat deposits to increase, while
an increase in water intake can actually reduce fat deposits.
Here's why:
The kidneys can't function properly without enough water. When they don't work
to capacity, some of their load is dumped onto the liver.
One of the
liver's primary functions is to metabolize stored fat into usable energy for the
body. But, if the liver has to do some of the kidney's work, it can't operate at
full throttle. As a result, it metabolizes less fat, more fat remains stored in
the body and weight loss stops.
Drinking
enough water is the best treatment for fluid retention.
When the body
gets less water it perceives this as a threat to survival and begins to hold
onto every drop. Water is stored in the extra cellular spaces (outside the cell
walls). This shows up as swollen feet, legs and hands.
Diuretics
offer a temporary solution at best. They force out stored water along with some
essential nutrients. Again, the body perceives a threat and will replace the
lost water at the first opportunity. Thus, the condition quickly returns.
The best way
to overcome the problem of water retention, is to give your body what it
needs--plenty of water. Only then will stored water be released.
The
overweight person needs more water than the thin one.
Larger people
have larger metabolic loads. Since we know that water is the key to fat
metabolism, it follows that the overweight person needs more water.
Water
helps maintain proper muscle tone.
It does this
by giving muscles their natural ability to contract and by preventing
dehydration. It also helps to prevent the sagging skin that usually follows
weight loss--shrinking cells are buoyed by water, which plumps the skin and
leaves it clear, healthy and resilient.
Water
helps rid the body of wastes.
During weight
loss, the body has a lot more waste to get rid of--all that metabolized fat must
be shed. Again, adequate water helps flush out waste.
Water
can help relieve constipation.
When the body
gets too little water, it siphons what it needs from internal sources. The colon
is one primary source. Result? Constipation. But, when a person drinks enough
water, normal bowel function usually returns.
So how
much water is enough?
On the
average a person should drink eight 8-ounce glasses every day. That's about two
quarts. However, the overweight person needs on additional glass for every 25
pounds overweight. The amount you drink should also be increased if you exercise
briskly or if the weather is hot and dry.
Water should
be preferably cold--it's absorbed into the system more quickly than warm water.
And some evidence suggests that drinking cold water can actually help you burn
calories.
To utilize
water most efficiently during weight loss follow this schedule:
- Morning
1 quart consumed over a 30 minute
period.
- Noon
1 quart consumed over a 30 minute
period.
- Evening
1 quart consumed between 5 and
6 o'clock.
When the body
gets the water it needs to function optimally, its fluids are perfectly
balanced. When this happens you have reached the "breakthrough point." What does
this mean?
- Endocrine-gland function improves.
- Fluid retention is alleviated as stored water is lost.
- More fat is used as fuel because the liver is free to metabolize stored fat.
- Natural thirst returns.
- There is a loss of hunger almost overnight.
If you stop
drinking enough water, your body fluids will be thrown out of balance again, and
you may experience unexplained weight gain and loss of thirst. To remedy this
situation you'll have to go back and force another breakthrough.
The above
article taken from "The Snowbird Diet" by Donald S. Roberston, M.D., M. Sc.
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