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At first glance, water doesn't seem to contribute much to your health. After all, it has no vitamins. No fibre. No protein. No carbohydrates. So why is pure water so integral to weight-loss?
Many people on extreme diets have the illusion that they have lost five to ten pounds in just a few days. In fact they haven't lost any fat at all, only water, and have put themselves in a state of dehydration. This will cause them to immediately regain the weight as soon as they return to their normal diet.
Other people avoid drinking water when they are trying to lose weight for fear that they will put on ‘water weight'. This too can induce a state of dehydration that will prevent the body from metabolizing fat efficiently.
A state of chronic dehydration will cause the body to hang on to everything that is eaten or drank. The only way to make the body feel safe and start metabolizing fat again is to supply it with regular amounts of pure of water.
“Many people notice a reduction in weight and centimeters, as their body's water stores become redundant and so decrease,” says Kim Beardsmore, a successful weight loss coach. “If your diet has been one that did not provide you with adequate water, your body will have developed a pattern of storing water. It's part of the body's in-built survival mechanism, to store up the essential nutrients in short supply, just in case they aren't available in the future. So if you don't drink enough water, you are 'conditioning' your body to store water. And water is bulk and unwanted centimeters.”
“A lot of us are walking around mildly dehydrated," says Barbara Levine, Ph.D., R.D., codirector of human nutrition at Rockefeller University in New York City. In fact, according to a recent Rockefeller University survey of 2,818 North Americans, only 34 percent drank the recommended amount of water daily.
"Water is needed for every cell in your body," says Levine. That is because the chemical reactions that happen in your body need a watery environment. Among its many tasks, water helps your body maintain its optimal temperature. It also helps your body digest food, convert it to energy, get rid of waste and avoid constipation. It is these functions of cleansing our systems and of providing an optimum environment for our natural chemical processes that makes consuming pure water so vital.
Susan M. Kleiner, Ph.D., R.D., FACN, an affiliate professor of the Nutritional Sciences Program at the University of Washington in Seattle as well as author of Power Eating and High-Performance Nutrition, blames common ailments on inadequate hydration. “Our thirst mechanisms aren't usually a good indicator of when we need water. When you become thirsty, chances are you are already mildly dehydrated.” Dr. Kleiner explains.
Even mild dehydration can have the negative effect of slowing the body's metabolism as much as three percent. Dehydration is often mistaken for hunger. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for nearly 100 percent of dieters, according to a University of Washington study.
Although these hunger-pangs can be satisfied with beverages other than water, it should be remembered that most beverages also contain unwanted and unnecessary calories. Also many beverages, especially those that contain both caffine and sugar, often do not even supply hydration but may have the opposite effect of causing the body to lose what it really needs, water.
So in these summer months, when our need for water increases with the temperature, remember to keep hydrated with the purest water available.