Given the 60% surge in the adrenal hormone noradrenaline within minutes of just drinking two cups of plain water,

might one get the weight loss benefits of benefits of norduralin releasing drugs

like Ephedra without the risks.

You don't know until you put it to the test.

Published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, the results were described as uniquely

spectacular.

Drinking two cups of water increased the metabolic rate of men and women by 30%.

The increase started within 10 minutes and reached a maximum within an hour, and then 90 minutes

after drinking a single tall glass of water in the study, subjects burned about an extra 25 calories.

Do that four times a day throughout the day, and you could wipe out 100 extra calories,

more than Ephedra.

You'd trim off more calories drinking water than taking weight-loss doses of the banned substance

Ephrarin, the active component of Ephedra, three times a day.

And we're just talking about plain, cheap, safe, and legal tap water.

Using the 10-calorie rule I explained previously, unless we somehow compensated by

eating more or moving less, drinking that much water could make us lose 10 pounds over time.

In essence, concluded one research team, drinking water provides negative calories.

A similar effect was found in overweight and obese children.

Drinking about two cups of water led to a 25% increase in metabolic rate within 24 minutes,

lasting at least 66 minutes until the experiment ended.

So just getting the recommended daily adequate intake of water,

about seven cups a day for children, ages 4 through 8,

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