Miracle Drink Helps Lose Weight, Eliminate Fat
August 27, 2010 by Mohamed
Filed under Weight Loss
I really hope that this study was not funded by tax payer dollars, but if you pay attention to the news you probably heard that drinking water will help you lose weight.
Drinking a glass of water before each meal could help you lose weigh, or make your current diet more effective. That’s the conclusion of a study just released by researchers at Virginia Tech University.
Think about the logic behind this – by drinking two 8 ounce glasses of water, you’re filling your stomach up and tricking your body into feeling more full so when the time comes to eat you won’t feel as hungry and as such you will eat less.
This isn’t new – my doctor has been telling me this for years and for those of us that are older it’s anecdotal advice given to us by our parents and perhaps grandparents. Maybe with this study and it being made “official” people that are trying to lose weight will drink water before each meal.
Has the long-sought magic potion in society’s “battle with the bulge” finally arrived? An appetite-control agent that requires no prescription, has no common side effects and costs almost nothing?
Scientists today reported results of a new clinical trial confirming that just two 8-ounce glasses of the stuff, taken before meals, enables people to shed pounds.
The weight-loss elixir, they told the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is ordinary water.
“We are presenting results of the first randomized controlled intervention trial demonstrating that increased water consumption is an effective weight loss strategy,” said Dr. Brenda Davy, senior author on the study.
“We found in earlier studies that middle aged and older people who drank two cups of water right before eating a meal ate between 75 and 90 fewer calories during that meal. In this recent study, we found that over the course of 12 weeks, dieters who drank water before meals, three times per day, lost about 5 pounds more than dieters who did not increase their water intake.”
“People should drink more water and less sugary, high-calorie drinks. It’s a simple way to facilitate weight management.”
Davy pointed out that folklore and everyday experience long have suggested that water can help promote weight loss. But there has been surprisingly little scientific information on the topic.
Previous studies hinted that drinking water before meals reduces intake of calories. Lacking until now, however, has been the “gold-standard” evidence from a randomized, controlled clinical trial that compares weight loss among dieters who drink water before meals with those who do not.
Groups
The study included 48 adults, 55-75 years, divided into two groups. One group drank 2 cups of water prior to their meals and the other did not. All of the subjects ate a low-calorie diet during the study.
Over the course of 12 weeks, water drinkers lost about 15.5 pounds, while the nonwater drinkers lost about 11 pounds. Davy said water may be so effective simply because it fills up the stomach with a substance that has zero calories.
People feel fuller as a result, and eat less calorie-containing food during the meal. Increased water consumption may also help people lose weight if they drink it in place of sweetened calorie-containing beverages, said Davy, who is with Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
Pop
Diet soda pop and other beverages with artificial sweeteners may also help people reduce their calorie intake and lose weight, Davy said. However, she advised against using beverages sweetened with sugar and high-fructose corn syrup because they are high in calories.
A 12-ounce can of regular soda pop, for instance, contains about 10 teaspoons of sugar.
Davy noted that that nobody knows exactly how much water people should drink daily.
The Institute of Medicine, an agency of The National Academies, which advises the Federal Government on science, says that most healthy people can simply let thirst be their guide. It does not specify exact requirements for water, but set general recommendations for women at about 9 cups of fluids — from all beverages including water — each day, and men at about 13 cups of fluids. And it is possible to drink too much water, a situation that can lead to a rare, but serious, condition known as water intoxication, Davy pointed out.
Treadmills And Ellipticals Best Exercise Equipment For Weight Loss
June 17, 2010 by Mohamed
Filed under Ellipticals, Exercise Equipment, Treadmills
With the multitude of exercise equipment out there, what’s the best one to buy? This new feature on Lose Weight and Feel Great will show you just that. We’ve reviewed some of the best brands out there and put together information that makes it easy for you to buy your treadmills, recumbent bike, home gym or elliptical or any other piece of exercise equipment to help you lose weight.
What’s coming up in the next few days…
Top Selling Treadmills to help You Lose Weight
| Schwinn 840 Treadmill |  |
| Nautilus T516 Treadmill | |
| Sole F80 Treadmill | |
| Bowflex Series 7 Treadmill | |
| Sole F63 Treadmill |
Best Ranked Ellipticals to help You Lose Weight
| Schwinn 420 Elliptical Trainer | |
| Sole E35 Elliptical Trainer | |
| Schwinn 430 Elliptical Trainer | |
| Schwinn 460 Variable Stride Elliptical Trainer | |
| Stamina 55-1610 InMotion E1000 Elliptical Trainer |
Lets kick it off with one of the best treadmills money can buy, if you’ve got the money to spend on it. The Precor 9.33 Premium Series Treadmill. This treadmill has it all:
- Professional-quality treadmill for the home with innovative design that adjusts belt speed to foot speed
- Up to 12 MPH speed, 15 percent incline
- 16 preset programs including 1-mile, 5k/10k courses, 1 heart rate, 2 custom, 1 manual, 3 run, 3 walk, 1 weight loss
- Handheld heart rate monitoring with compatibility for wireless monitors
- Lifetime warranty on frame, 10 year on parts, 1 year on labor
Precor is a brand that is unsurpassed in quality and engineering. Precor is passionate about fitness. It all started with a desire to create a better kind of exercise equipment, one that mirrored human movement: fluid, natural, and dynamic. Twenty-six years later the company’s biomechanics and engineering experience have led to countless innovations that have captivated fitness enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. Precor has introduced many “firsts” to the fitness industry, including the Elliptical Fitness Crosstrainer (EFX®) in 1995 and the revolutionary, award-winning Adaptive Motion Trainer (AMT®) in 2007. Today, Precor is a celebrated top-tier brand preferred by fitness enthusiasts of all abilities and their machines are used every day in health clubs, hotels, facilities, and homes worldwide.
If you are a gadget freak, and love exercise then you can combine both – have a visit to Best GPS for Walking, Running, Hiking, Backpacking or Cycling and get your gadget fix by reading our Handheld GPS Buyers Guide with our top picks from Garmin.
BOOKMARK this page and come back regularly for more information on the top treadmills, recumbent bikes, home gyms, ellipticals and other exercise equipment that will help you lose weight, and get in shape.
UPDATE: Here is a comprehensive list of all the fitness exercise equipment we’ve reviewed on the blog over the last few months:
