04/03/2024
The Importance of Drinking Enough Water for Weight Loss
Water serves as the source of human life. Besides effects such as: enhancing metabolism, detoxification, and moisturizing... water is also highly appreciated in weight loss.
1. Drinking water will burn more calories
In adults, drinking lots of water will increase the ability to burn calories by 24–30% within 10 minutes at rest. This process will last at least 60 minutes. To consolidate this, another study showed that overweight and obese children increased their energy expenditure by 25% when drinking cold water.
Overweight women who drink more than 1 liter of water per day for 12 months will lose at least 2 kg. Even for women who do not follow any weight loss regimen, except drinking lots of water, it also brings certain results.
In addition, the above studies also show that drinking 0.5 liters of water can burn 23 calories.
2. Drinking water helps reduce body weight
There have been many studies that have proven that overweight people who drink 1-1.5 liters of water every day for several weeks have significantly reduced weight, BMI, and waist circumference, as well as the amount of body fat. This effect will be enhanced if you drink cold water instead of warm water. When drinking cold water, the body is forced to use extra calories to warm the water up to body temperature.
At the same time, drinking water before meals can reduce appetite, especially in the elderly, the effectiveness of drinking water before meals is highly appreciated. They can lose an additional 2 kg over 12 weeks if they maintain this habit. Besides, overweight and obese middle-aged people who drink water before each meal will lose 44% of their weight compared to the group who do not drink much water.
3. Drink lots of water to prevent weight gain
Normally, a person will gain an average of about 1.45 kg after 4 years. To prevent excessive weight gain, you should maintain drinking plenty of water by:
Increasing daily water consumption to 1 cup may reduce this weight gain.
Replacing calorie and sugary drinks with another drink can reduce weight loss by 0.5 kg in 4 years.
Therefore, drinking enough water is very important in the weight loss process.