Water & Weight Loss

Below is an excerpt from Part Two of

The 2004 Multi-Diet

by Anderson A. Anonymous, M.D., Ph.D.

More On… Water

Success is built on details that others ignore.

Importance

As I stated in Part One, water is an essential nutrient that is so often taken for granted it’s not even mentioned. However, it is also so important that a lack of it will kill you faster than a lack of any other vital substance except oxygen. Since Multi-Dieters are smarter (naturally ) than most other people, we do not take it for granted.

On a more practical level, and especially for Multi-Dieters, drinking enough water daily is critical. One reason for this is that on the Multi-Diet you are usually taking mineral supplements. Supplements practically eliminate the possibility of transient nutrient deficiencies.

But even if you are using supplements properly to ensure you get only RDI amounts of nutrients, they can still allow an unnoticed accumulation of too much of something—unless your body can get rid of it. And that requires water. If not eliminated these excesses can cause all sorts of unpleasant and even frightening sensations.

I will give you a personal example of what I mean. One week, after I’d been doing The Multi-Diet for some time and had basically stopped thinking much about it, I got into an intense working situation where I started drinking a lot of very strong coffee—which strongly suppresses thirst.

After several days, I started having continuous stomach upset and intense heartburn. These symptoms got worse and worse until I was convinced that some serious physical problem was developing. But before doing a lot of expensive medical tests, I fortunately decided to write down what I had been eating and drinking.

The problem practically jumped out at me. I’d been drinking less than half my proper amount of water for at least a week. Naturally, I immediately started pouring water down. The symptoms disappeared completely in 12 hours despite the fact that I did not stop drinking the strong coffee for several more days.

This demonstrates that the body can easily eliminate many toxic excesses and their physical symptoms if it has the means to do so. I pass this story on because it will be much easier on you if you can learn this from my experience than if you must learn it from your own. Do not neglect water!!