The Ultimate Diet Plan
By Pat Racimora on September 17, 2010 at 1:30 PM in Current Affairs
Move aside Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Meridia, Alli and all those other products and services that add up to a multibillion dollar industry.
The science is apparently in!
The “magic bullet” for shedding those ugly extra pounds has finally been discovered. But, is it expensive? Does it require a prescription? Are all those pesky (and sometimes serious) side effects worth it?
No, it’s free! It’s already in your house! There are no side effects!
Just drink 16 ounces of water before each meal and the pounds will fall away. No, I am not kidding, and I didn’t get this information from a blaring headline in a rack by the market checkout counter.
Science Daily, a publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, reports on a clinical trial that had remarkable results.
Scientists report results of a new clinical trial confirming that just two 8-ounce glasses of the stuff, taken before meals, enables people to shed pounds. The weight-loss elixir, they told the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is ordinary water.
“We are presenting results of the first randomized controlled intervention trial demonstrating that increased water consumption is an effective weight loss strategy,” said 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 suspected reason is also simple—water fills up the stomach cavity with something that has no calories, thus curbing the appetite. And, we need water to survive (but not too much though), so this weight control method is also life sustaining.
A win-win all around. Yes?
Well, not exactly. The manufacturers of all of those programs, elixirs, and drugs that make us feel unsightly unless we’re shaped like a Q-tip may be out of luck if the word gets out. You can bet they are already conducting their own studies to try to prove that the water diet doesn’t work. (Either that, or they will put water in a cute little bottle with a fancy name and charge ten bucks for it.)
(h/t to Dr. Ken for sharing the article with me.)
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