What is water diet?

At times it is known as the Cold Water Diet. It is a diet that does not limit food consumption, nor does it entail exercise. Eating what you want is allowed – and still you can lose weight. Isn’t that easy and interesting?

What is the theory behind the diet?

The underlying principle of this diet is that body burn up extra calories to warm up the cold water that has been gulped down. It heats the water up to a body temperature of 98.6 degrees. The colder the water, the tougher the body works up to warm or heat up the cold water – that’s the basic principle. Therefore, the colder the water that you drink, added calories would be burned. Secondly, drinking water within meals or in between meals gives dieters the feeling of fullness, ostensibly making them less likely to want to eat more. And additionally, our kidneys responsibility to process our water intake, the more water to process the greater the possibility of flushing toxins from our body. Water has been a cleansing element in our system.

How does it work?

When one is on a water diet, he is required to drink sixty four ounces of cold water in a day. Each serving should be eight ounces (that is a measurement of one drinking glass). That is in addition to the dieter’s normal fluid intake. If one’s usual diet of fluid intake is only six glasses per day, then the eight glasses should be added to that. Any potable water is acceptable but cold water is advisable. When on this diet, food consumption is not restricted and exercise is not required.

What are its pros and cons?

The advantage of Water Diet is that it is absolutely free. You can get water almost everywhere. Anyone who has access to potable water can actually try it. You can carry water everywhere you want to go therefore not altering schedule of drinking. A disadvantage would be that dieters are frequently and very often running to the ladies or men’s room. As the reviewers of the fluid diet program has emphasized that this diet is not actually a diet but simply to persuade people to drink the daily requirement of daily water intake. The fact is, after following the daily requirement for water intake, there were positive, enormous results.

Is it effective?

The has been no further scientific studies and researches conducted on the efficacy of the program but there has been claims to have lost weight while following the “before, during and after” strategy of drinking cold water. Jeff Schmidt, 43 years old has claimed to have lost 50 pounds in I year while following the fluid diet program. Tucson’s Fox News 11 can be accessed on the web to watch the success stories of dieters who claimed to drink a glass of water before their meals, one during and one after eating.

Drinking too much water has no side effects. But drinking less water has lots of side effects. Imagine all the practical benefits of water to your body being decreased or minimized? One can always try to do water diet. It is inexpensive, very easy to do and very natural.

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