Interesting short article in this week's edition of The Economist. According to research by Brenda Davy of Virginia Tech, a randomised study showed that people who drank a liter of water before a meal lost far more weight, and kept the weight off over the following 12 months, in comparison with people who did not (in conjunction with a calorie controlled diet). The water drinking group lost 7kg (over 15 lbs) in three months compared to 5kg in the dry group.
I thought that it was received wisdom that drinking water helped people lose weight, but it seems that this is the first study to try to prove it. Well, good news. Water is accessible, cheap, and easy to use. Maybe we should try it, OEM.
To read the whole article, visit The Economist website at http://www.economist.com/node/16881791.
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It stands to reason I suppose; but when you have (not to put too fine a point on it) peed it all out again, presumably you then have an empty stomach and are hungry again?
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