Water for Weight Loss

Water may be the world's greatest weight-loss drink. Why? it's needed for most metabolic processes. it helps flush toxins out of the body. It gives you energy (even 2 percent dehydration can negatively impact physical performance). And much of what we perceive as hunger--driving us to overeat-- is actually thirst.
For over a decade experts have been recommending that the ideal number of ounces of water to drink each day for weight loss can be estimated by taking your current weight and dividing it by two. For example, if you are 200lbs., you should drink 100 oz. of water a day. (Alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra recently recommended the same formula). But until now there hasn't been a lot of research to back up this conviction.
In two seperate studies published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, researchers found that within 10 minutes of drinking about a pint of water, metabolic rates begin to increase as much as 24 to 30 percent. Other liquids don't seem to have the same effect. For best results, consume your first pint of water in the morning on an empty stomach. And then keep on drinking all day! You could actually burn an extra 17,400 calories a year.