Water Before Meals Doubles Weight Loss Success - Study Said to Confirm Diet Myth Gets Falsely Overgeneralized
Could this large glass of water really be the "diet game changer" some mainstream media make it look like? Or, are we - once again - dealing with the abuse of science to attract readers by propagating dubious dieting myths? The advice to "drink a glass of water before every meal" is about as old as human efforts to lose weight. Yet despite the fact that an increase in daily water consumption is widely advocated as a useful tool to aid weight loss and even included in popular weight loss programs like Weight Watchers , there is, according to the latest systematic review of the association between water consumption and body weight, little evidence to support this practice outside of energetically restricted interventions (Muckelbauer. 2013). In other words: While we do have evidence that replacing caloric beverages with water/diet beverages works (Tate. 2012), we have little evidence that simply drinking more will accelerate weight loss and almost no evidence...