7 amazing benefits of drinking a lot of water.

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1.            Helps shed excess pounds Drinking water can help you lose weight. Dr Chidi says: “Firstly, it quenches the thirst that’s often confused with hunger, plus filling the stomach with water also stretches it, which send messages to the brain to say that you’re full, switching off hunger signals.” It can also help speed up our metabolism to burn more calories. “If you drink ice cold water, the body has to raise the temperature of the water to body temperature, which requires energy. So just drinking two litres of chilled water per day will mean you lose 1-2kg of fat over the course of a year,” Dr Chidi adds.

2.            Lower blood pressure One of the easiest ways to lower your blood pressure is to drink more water. “Imagine trying to swim in pool of honey – it would be very difficult and you’d need a lot of force to move forward,” says Dr Chidi. “A similar thing happens with our blood when we’re dehydrated – it becomes less diluted and thicker, which means more force is needed to pump it around the body so our blood pressure rises.” Drinking more water, means more dilute blood and lower BP.