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This Diet Must Include a Lot of Water
The Importance of Drinking Water
    Opinions and rumors circulate about how much water you should drink, but almost always there is some kind of “authority” telling you today the exact opposite of what you heard yesterday. However, this water issue is not simply a marketing concept for diets; it is a question of great importance.
    To simplify things, it may seem essential to burn calories so that our fat reserves melt away; but this combustion, as necessary as it is, is not enough. Losing weight is as much about eliminating waste as it is about burning fat.
    Would you do a load of laundry or wash the dishes without rinsing them? It is the same with losing weight. A diet that does not involve drinking a sufficient quantity of water is a bad diet. Not only is it ineffective, it leads to the accumulation of harmful waste.
    Water Purifies the Body and Improves the Diet’s Results Simple observation shows us that the more water you drink, the more you urinate and the greater the opportunity for the kidneys to eliminate waste derived from the food burned. Water is, therefore, the best natural diuretic. It is surprising how few people drink enough water.
    The many demands in our busy day conspire to delay, then finally eliminate, our natural feeling of thirst, which no longer plays its part in warning us about tissue dehydration. Many women, whose bladders are smaller and more sensitive than men’s, do not drink to avoid having to go to the bathroom constantly, or because it is awkward at work or on public transport, or because they do not like public restrooms.
    However, what you may get away with under ordinary circumstances must change when you are following a weight loss diet.
    Trying to lose weight without drinking water is not only toxic for the body, it can reduce and even completely block the weight loss so that all your work is for nothing.
    Why?
    Because the human engine that burns its fat while dieting functions like any combustion engine. Burned fuel (proteins) gives off heat and waste. If these waste products are not regularly eliminated by the kidneys, they will accumulate and, sooner or later, interrupt combustion and prevent any weight loss, even if you are following the diet scrupulously.
    It is the same for a car engine with a clogged exhaust pipe, or a fire in a fireplace full of ashes. Both end up choking and dying from the buildup of waste. Sooner or later, bad nutrition and the accumulated effects of bad healthcare and extreme or unbalanced diets will make the overweight person’s kidneys become lazy. More than anyone else, overweight people need large quantities of water to get their kidneys working efficiently again.
    At the outset, drinking a lot of water may seem tedious and unpleasant, especially in wintertime. But if you keep it up, the habit will grow on you. Then, encouraged by the pleasant feeling of cleaning out your insides and, even better, of losing weight, drinking often ends up once again becoming something you want to do.
    When They Are Combined, Water and Pure Proteins Act Powerfully on Cellulite This issue concerns women, as cellulite is a type of fat that, under hormonal influence, accumulates and remains trapped in the thighs, hips, and knees. Diets are very often powerless against it. I have discovered that the pure protein diet, together with a reduction in salt intake and an increase in consumption of mineral water (see “ Which Water Should You Drink ?”) with a low mineral salt content, leads to a weight loss with moderate but genuine weight loss in the difficult areas, such as the thighs or the insides of the knees, and achieves the best overall reduction around the hips and thighs.
    These results can be explained by the diuretic effect of proteins and the intense filtering undertaken by the kidneys made possible by the increased water intake. Water penetrates all tissues, even cellulite. It goes in, pure and clean, and