Water & Weight Loss
Introduction

Calories control weight, but all the other nutrients (together) control hunger. This is the reason you can lose weight easily if you know how to control both Calories & hunger.

Water is one of the most important of the "normally neglected nutrients".

In this section we explain why water is so important; why it's so often neglected; and show you several methods to keep it from being a problem while you are dieting to lose weight.

Main Discussion:
Weight loss Needs Water

Water is a vital nutrient often foolishly ignored by dieters.

Water is vital to health. A lack of water will have worse health effects faster than a lack of any other vital nutrient. Your body therefore manages it's water supply very carefully even though this is an unconscious process for you.

For dieters, this is especially important because your body does its management in part by stimulating hunger when it needs more water.

People often assume that only thirst is stimulated by a need for more water. But both science and experience show that this is not so.

Science shows that you generally will lose about 2% of your body's water  (that's a considerable amount)  before thirst develops. Dieters and others have noticed that they experience much less hunger when they deliberately drink more water or other liquids.

Most natural food does contain a great deal of water, so "hunger" can also satisfy a need for water -- and hunger can therefore be effectively used by the body as a water management method. "Thirst" probably kicks in mainly when a "low-water" situation reaches a certain "threshold" that begins to threaten more serious problems.

So dieters need to maintain their water intake and they should not rely on thirst to remind them to do it.

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