Water with lemon - it's just water with lemon

There just do not ascribe magical properties of water with a slice of lemon! Starting from the fact that it helps to lose weight, ending with the fact that it improves the immune system.

In fact, water with lemon - it's just water with lemon. Plain water with a pleasant acidity and refreshing taste, nothing more.

It is really useful, but not enough to endow its magic power and hope that one cup in the morning will solve all the problems with being overweight and poor health.

Myth 1. Lemon water accelerates metabolism

One studyLemon Polyphenols Suppress Diet-induced Obesity by Up-Regulation of mRNA Levels of the Enzymes Involved in β-Oxidation in Mouse White Adipose TissueWhich was carried out on mice, it was focused on how the polyphenols obtained from lemon peel affect mice dieters with a high fat content. The amount of extract was 0.5% of the mouse diet. The results were encouraging: the mouse that ate the lemon extract, not tolstel as much as mice that did not eat it. But compare the two phrases:

1. Polyphenols from lemon peel extract helped mice did not gain weight.
2. Lemon water helps a person lose weight.

The gap between them is too great.

Myth 2. Lemon water helps to lose weight

To some extent this is true. If you drink a glass of water before eating, It temporarily fills the stomach and leave it only after 5-15 minutes. During this time, you can eat something or even think that you already ate. But this effect has any liquid, including plain water.

Myth 3. Water with lemon - a low-calorie drink

Well yes. Water with a slice of lemon is composed mainly of water. If you do not add honey or sugar, calories take nowhere. But, you see, the fact that the water does not add calories - this is not breaking news.

Myth 4. Lemon water helps detox the body

Does not help. Because no detox does not exist, we have already wrote.

Myth 5. In water with lemon is full of minerals and vitamins

Maybe in the lemon and complete. Or lemon juice. And now count up how much of the juice contained in one lobe (such services there is), And see how much it will be useful in a glass of water with lemon.

The lemon water is not too much of vitamin C. One slice of lemon will give about 4% of the daily value. If you really love lemons and drink the juice from the whole fruit, you need to close to 36%. This is not bad. But you get the vitamins and the rest of the meal. You can, for example, eat an orange and get all the daily rate (and even more).

Myth 6. Lemon water helps digestion

Gastric juice - is an acid. Lemon also has acid like lemons should help digestion.

Let's start with the fact that digestion - a multi-level process, and gastric juice is effective only at one stage. Increasing the acid in the stomach especially does not help. And, in principle, change the acidity of gastric juice with the help of the food is not so easy. Secretory cells that secrete gastric juice, react to changes in the environment and enhance the production or acid or, conversely, suspend it. So the lemon just built into this mechanism, and nothing will change.

The lemon water no pectin and fiber that would help digestion. Fiber has in the lemon, but in order to get it, it is necessary to eat a slice of lemon.

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In general, the lemon water - it's not bad. Especially if you want to wake up in the morning and to cheer up, and at the same time to engage with caffeine addiction. It definitely helps to restore moisture balance, and a glass of water with a pleasant taste easier to drink than just a glass of water. A more lemon drops in a glass of cool look when you open the curtains, make a breath and prepare to start the day with a charge. Perhaps this is the best that can be expected from it.

Layfhaker also said that starting the morning with lemon water - it is useful. But we decided to show readers and a different perspective on this issue. And why data from different sources are so contradictory, we too told.