Drink water to curb weight gain? Clinical trial confirms effectiveness of simple appetite control method
Mystical powers of H2O revealed!!!!
Brenda Davy, Ph.D., senior author on the study. "We found in earlier studies that middle aged and older people who drank two cups of water right before eating a meal ate between 75 and 90 fewer calories during that meal. In this recent study, we found that
over the course of 12 weeks,
dieters who drank water before meals, three times per day, lost about 5 pounds more than dieters who did not increase their water intake."
The study included 48 adults aged 55-75 years, divided into two groups. One group drank 2 cups of water prior to their meals and the other did not. All of the subjects ate a low-calorie diet during the study. Over the course of 12 weeks, water drinkers lost about 15.5 pounds, while the non-water drinkers lost about 11 pounds.
Davy said water may be so effective simply because it fills up the stomach with a substance that has zero calories. People feel fuller as a result, and eat less calorie-containing food during the meal.
Full study is here: (This link will / may open a PDF file on your computer.)
http://www.ipwr.org/documents/WaterW...esity.2009.pdf
Bio (get it? BIO??.. Ahahaha) on the doctor's credentials.
IPWR Fellow, Brenda Davy, Ph.D., RD
Gah, I spelled elixir wrong in the thread title.
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