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Water, Water and MORE Water!!!
Please consult with your Doctor before starting any diet plan
Drink
water. Lose weight! Just replace some of
the high calorie foods you eat with fruits, vegetables and other water
dense foods that keep you just as full. We know it sounds too
good to be true, but new research conducted at Pennsylavania State
University suggests it is possible to lose weight by making small changes
in your diet. The women in the study
ate a whopping 800 fewer calories a day as a result of these dietary
changes. "I am not a great
advocate of simply telling people to eat less, because they are going to
get hungry if they do that... What we are trying to do is give people
satisfying amounts of food that are less calorie dense," says Barbara
Rolls, a nutrition researcher who conducted the study. Rolls says though
weight loss was not considered in the study, the reduction of 800 calories
per day could result in a weight loss of about a pound and a half
(0.68 kilos) over the course of a week. "The rationale
behind eating water dense foods is that whatever you eat can go out of the
system very fast," says Dr P K Chowbey, an expert in obesity
management at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. He cites the example of
an apple which has 98 per cent liquid and very few calories. A sweet
of the same size will have 20 times more calories. Dr Chowbey says that,
as a result of our tropical climate, Indians drink more water
than Americans, whose water intake is almost zero. But, because of
the growing fast food culture and decreased physical activity, obesity
levels have gone up drastically among Indians -- at present, it is 37
percent among men and 42 percent among women. "People tend to
eat the same amount of food each day, regardless of the calories. Adding
vegetables to that pizza, lasagna or casserole will increase the
food's volume and result in fewer overall calories consumed since portion
sizes tend to stay the same," explains Rolls. Another study on
obesity shows a link between lack of sleep and gaining weight -- skimping
on sleep may make you vulnerable to obesity. The finding is based on
data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted
in the US. The study discovered that people who reported getting less than
seven hours of sleep a night were more likely to be obese on initial
evaluation. Why water is
necessary 1. Our
bodies contain over 70 percent water. 2. You
can go longer without food than water. 3. Our
bodies need a lot of water to function efficiently. When your
body is not getting enough water ~It tries to hold on to
the water it has. Since over 70 percent of our muscle is made of water,
the lack of it makes our body use the existing water for other functions,
leaving you bloated. Hot or cold
water? ~Many experts tend to
advocate cold water, because the stomach absorbs it more quickly. They believe that cold
water might enhance fat burning. How
much water?
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