Can Drinking Extra Water Decrease Your Weight?

A new study found that drinking water before meals can help people lose weight. Top researchers from Virginia Tech Institute reported that two 8-ounce glasses of water drank before a meal helped people lose weight. Brenda Davy, Ph.D., the leading researcher of the study and an associate professor of nutrition at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg revealed the following.

In the study, researchers separated 48 older adults into two groups. One drank two cups of water before each meal and the other did not. Studies show that after 12 weeks of research, adults who drank water before their meals lost an average of 5 pounds more than adults who did not drink additional water. Doctors also said the data showed it is better for people to drink more water and less sugary drinks in order to control their weight.

Three months after the study shows that participants who ate a low fat diet and who drank water before meals lost an average of 15.5 pounds, compared with only 11 pounds in the control group. Additional studies found that adults and older people who drank two cups of water before a meal ate as much as 90 fewer calories during that meal than those who did not have water.

The main reason drinking water appears to decrease weight is that it helps fill your stomach, making you less hungry and less likely to overeat. Drinking more water is a low-risk way to lose excess weight, especially if it takes the place of other liquid calories, says Stephen Cook, M.D., an obesity expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in N.Y.

Earlier studies found that middle-aged and older people who drank two cups of water right before eating consumed up to 100 fewer calories during that meal than those who did not have water.

According to researchers, drinking water before meals help dieters restrict their calorie intake and shed extra pounds. Although the researchers are not sure how drinking water before meals facilitates weight management, they believe it is effective because water fills the stomach with liquid that has no calories. Experts speculate that individuals who feel full much sooner will avoid eating excessively.

Affordable Health Care To The Formidably Obese is Urged to Congress

Shape Up America! coalition is persuading Congress to provide affordable health care to the formidably obese...

15 year ago former U.S. Attorney General C. Everett Koop assembled a coalition of 20 organizations and public health officials called Shape Up America! to fight nation obesity crisis. Shape Up America! is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising awareness of obesity as a health issue and to providing responsible information on healthy weight management.

Now the coalition has launched a new crusade to provide affordable health care to formidably obese. In an open letter “15 Million Americans at Greatest Risk of Disease and Death Have Been Left Out of Health Reform Debate” they urged congress to provide counseling and treatment including weight loss surgery. The letter mentions that obesity related disease is costing the nation an estimated $147 billion each year. The coalition says that an estimated 15 million Americans need all the help they can get as the House of Representatives and the Senate begin mapping out companion bills to make health care more affordable and accessible.

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Medical Tourism Weight Loss Surgery in Mexico is Affordable and Convenient

Medical Tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is gaining popularity in the United States due to its low cost, convenience, and short wait lists, and is rapidly becoming an affordable alternative to expensive US healthcare. The ease and affordability of Medical Tourism makes traveling across US borders to obtain specialty health care a winning solution.

Weight loss surgery patients are taking advantage of medical tourism in Mexico and travelling to Mexico for bariatric surgery. Popular weight loss procedures include Lap-Band, Sleeve, Duodenal Switch, Gastric Bypass, and Mini Gastric Bypass. The full service package includes hospital fees, doctor fees, transportation, and over night stays.

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Study: Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Cancer Risk in Women

Weight-loss surgery can sometimes reverse type 2 diabetes and ease other obesity-related diseases and conditions. Obesity is a known risk factor for colon, breast, endometrial, kidney and esophageal cancers. New research suggests that obese women who undergo bariatric weight-loss surgery experience a 42 percent drop in their cancer risk - Men, for some reason, didn't get the same benefit from the surgery.

The majority of participants in the study had Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (commonly known as stomach stapling); some had adjustable gastric banding, in which a silicone band is placed around the top of the upper part of the stomach to restrict food intake. Fewer than 300 people in the study had gastric bypass surgery, a more dramatic technique in which the surgeon creates a golf-ball-shaped pouch to curb food intake. Although a reduction in cancer risk was seen with all three techniques, some experts believe that gastric bypass surgery may one day be shown to be more effective than the other two.

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