More Water Equals More Fat Loss!

- Jerry Kindela

If you’re still relying on diet drinks to aid your weight-loss program, try this simple food hack to improve your results. A recent weight-loss study, reported in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, asked roughly half its overweight female participants to drink water after they ate lunch instead of diet beverages five days per week. The other half was told to continue drinking the diet beverages while they kept to the weight-loss plan. After 24 weeks, both groups improved body composition and reduced their cardiometabolic risk factors by a good deal. However, the water drinkers lost even more fat and showed greater improvements in fasting insulin response. Take-away: Just imagine how much better your fat-loss efforts (and health) may be if you drink at least eight glasses of water per day, seven days per week, and skip the diet drinks altogether.

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