Water and Weight Loss 

Water is essential to everyone but did you know that it's also extremely beneficial in helping to shed fat from the body. If our body was starved of water for a few days we would die from organ failure.

It can be quite scary to think how important water is to the diet. Our bodies are made of 60% of water and our organs need to be moisturised regularly to ensure optimum health. Dehydration can occur in many ways: sweat, sunstroke, vomiting or not getting enough water in the diet.

The symptoms of dehydration can be thirst or even a pounding headaches in some cases. When the body is moisturised regularly with water it works at its best.  

Water is essential to the internal organs especially the kidneys and liver. The liver is always metabolising the fat in the body into energy and exactly how good it metabolises the stored fat is through how much water a person drinks.

When the kidneys are not running efficiently because they are dehydrated from a lack of water the liver has to basically kick the kidneys into touch to start performing their bodily process again.

Also at times when a person may feel hungry it may not be actual hunger they have it may just be thirst for liquid. The body does not know if it is hunger unless some liquid is drunk. The body cannot differentiate between thirst and hunger so the brain sends a signal for food because the brain knows that all foods contains water.

Drinking extremely cold water helps the body to burn additional calories because when ice cold water is consumed the body must use calories to actually heat the water to the body's own temperature to make use of it in the body. 

Essential water is also contains in fruits and vegetables. How much water do you add to rice to cook it? I guess we forget that it's also contained in legumes, rice and pasta. Water is in most foods which is why it is not always essential to drink 8 extra glasses of water on top of the water taken in through the diet.

Tea, coffee, soda and milk all count towards your daily intake. And contrary to popular myths about coffee and tea, although they are diuretics which actually mean that they actually expel more fluid out of the body than normal, coffee and tea are still essential fluids needed by the body.

Ice cold water is beneficial to your weight loss programme and will help you shed the fat faster. If you have sensitive teeth just drink the ice cold water through a straw. As long as its cold and the body knows it you will be burning extra calories and the great thing about it all is that water contains absolutely no calories at all.