Why Does Water Help Weight Loss?
As the modern diet has evolved, the salt content of food has tended to increase, certainly in western countries. However your body needs the proper proportion of water to salt ratio to function properly.
Other food substances, particularly caffeine, can have a dehydrating effect, and this will mean you need to drink more water to counter the effect, particularly if you drink a lot of tea or coffee.
What are the scientific processes that means water can help weight loss?
The process of burning stored fat, or rather converting the stored fat into energy, is undertaken by your liver. This process is referred to as metabolism, a term you may have heard to in relation to jump starting a diet.
However your liver also needs to act as a back up to your kidneys, which require water to work effieciently. If you do not drink enough water, will impact on your kidneys, meaning they are not working at their peak performance and so your liver is called into help them. This means the liver is less able to perform itβs fat burning role.