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Clinical trial confirms effectiveness of simple appetite control method
http://www.physorg.com/news201793368.html
August 23, 2010
Drinking more water before meals can help promote weight loss.
Has the long-sought magic potion in society's "battle with the bulge"
finally arrived? An appetite-control agent that requires no
prescription, has no common side effects, and costs almost nothing?
Scientists today reported 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."
"People should drink more water and less sugary, high-calorie drinks.
It's a simple way to facilitate weight management."
Davy pointed out that folklore and everyday experience long have
suggested that water can help promote weight loss. But there has been
surprisingly little scientific information on the topic. Previous
studies hinted that drinking water before meals reduces intake of
calories. Lacking until now, however, has been the "gold-standard"
evidence from a randomized, controlled clinical trial that compares
weight loss among dieters who drink water before meals with those who
do not.
The study included 48 adults aged 55-75 years, divided into two
groups. One group drank 2 cups of water prior to their meals and the
other did not. All of the subjects ate a low-calorie diet during the
study. Over the course of 12 weeks, water drinkers lost about 15.5
pounds, while the non-water drinkers lost about 11 pounds.
Davy said water may be so effective simply because it fills up the
stomach with a substance that has zero calories. People feel fuller as
a result, and eat less calorie-containing food during the meal.
Increased water consumption may also help people lose weight if they
drink it in place of sweetened calorie-containing beverages, said
Davy, who is with Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
Diet soda pop and other beverages with artificial sweeteners may also
help people reduce their calorie intake and lose weight, Davy said.
However, she advised against using beverages sweetened with sugar and
high-fructose corn syrup because they are high in calories. A 12-ounce
can of regular soda pop, for instance, contains about 10 teaspoons of
sugar.
Davy noted that that nobody knows exactly how much water people should
drink daily. The Institute of Medicine, an agency of The National
Academies, which advises the Federal Government on science, says that
most healthy people can simply let thirst be their guide. It does not
specify exact requirements for water, but set general recommendations
for women at about 9 cups of fluids — from all beverages including
water — each day, and men at about 13 cups of fluids.
And it is possible to drink too much water, a situation that can lead
to a rare, but serious, condition known as water intoxication, Davy
pointed out.
Provided by American Chemical Society
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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