Effectively Improve Body Metabolism, But Does Drinking Lemon Water Every Day Make You Thin?

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YOGYAKARTA – Besides being beneficial in improving digestion and increasing energy, drinking lemon water every day is claimed to help improve metabolism and is beneficial for weight loss. Is it true that only drinking lemon water can lose weight?

Lemon water, mixed with mineral water, can be drunk warm or cold. When compared to soda, lemon water has much lower calories. Assuming squeezing half a medium lemon, a lemon contains only 6 calories. Instead of drinking bottled orange juice and fresh soda, drink lemon water to reduce calories and help you lose weight.

If you replace one of the sodas with a cup of lemon a day, you can reduce your daily calorie intake by 100-200 calories. Citing Healthline, Tuesday, June 7, drinking low-calorie drinks and foods can lower your overall daily calories. In a study conducted by researchers at the Department of Nutritional Science, The Pennsylvania State University in 2005 involving 44 women who ate lunch with drinks containing calories or not.

Researchers measured the calories consumed and found that drinking calorie-dense drinks such as sugary sodas, milk, and juices without compensating for small portions, increased calorie consumption automatically. Although lemon water contains calories, the amount is quite low. This means that without reducing the portion of food, the number of daily calories consumed continues to decrease.

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Lemon is also useful for maintaining fluid balance in the body. Some evidence also finds a link between getting enough fluids in the body and losing weight. So a well-hydrated body also helps your diet program. Enough water also helps increase metabolism.

Research suggests that proper hydration can improve mitochondrial function. Mitochondria are a type of organelle that helps produce energy for the body. Well, when metabolism increases it makes it easier to burn energy. A properly functioning metabolism can also induce thermogenesis, where calories are burned to generate body heat. Plus, drinking lots of water also increases feelings of fullness so that cravings are controlled.

In one study involving 48 adults, it was found that 44 percent of participants who drank before eating lost weight than those who did not drink first. Research also shows that increasing water intake can help stimulate weight loss. Of course, it needs to be accompanied by reducing the portion of food or diet and exercise.

From the research above, it can be concluded that drinking water, including drinking lemon water, has the potential to lose weight. Although research on the effectiveness of lemon water for weight loss has not been much and has not been proven validly, it can be learned that drinking enough is important to your diet program.