Did you know that plain water can help you shed pounds? You already know that water can fill you and quench your thirst without any calories, because there are no calories in water. But just as important, drinking water increases your metabolism, causing your body to burn more calories. And the colder the water, the more calories your body burns, trying to warm it up to body temperature.
Increasing water consumption by a 1.5 gallons a day for one year would help you shed 5 pounds by burning 17,400 calories. Now, that may not seem like much, but if you couple that with the calories burned by chewing food at least 20 times, and eating more slowly (see archive post, April 2007), you can shed 10 pounds a year without dieting or exercising.
Studies have also shown that tea drinkers tend to have 20% less body fat than non-tea drinkers. It is thought that tea increases metabolism, and lowers absorption of sugar molecules.
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