or many people it is an important question. How much water should I drink if I want to lose weight? Should I drink an ice water or a hot water? Is it really true that drinking hot teas will help you burn calories faster?


Drinking 500 mL of water (a half-liter or about a pint) increased the study participants' metabolism briefly - for about a half hour. In that time they burned an extra 25 calories. That's about a quarter of a piece of sliced bread, or 5 M&Ms. The researchers theorized that most of the effect comes from warming the water in the stomach. In the male participants the calories came mostly from stored fat, in the women it came from stored carbohydrates. The paper was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, December, 2003. It was conducted by researchers in Berlin.


If you want to know, if your body burns calories warming up the water, the answers is yes. But if you want to know if drinking a lot of ice water can help you lose weight, or keep weight off, this "yes" needs to be qualified with some calculations.

First of all, calories are case-sensitive. There are calories and then there are Calories. Calories with a big "c" are the ones used to describe the amount of energy contained in foods. A calorie with a little "c" is defined as the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius.

What most people think of as a Calorie is actually a kilo-calorie: It takes one Calorie to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius. So when you drink a 140-Calorie can of cola, you are ingesting 140,000 calories. There is no cause for alarm, because the conversion applies across the board. When you burn 100 Calories jogging a mile, you are burning 100,000 calories.

So, considering that the definition of a calorie is based on raising the temperature of water, it is safe to say that your body burns calories when it has to raise the temperature of ice water to your body temperature. And unless your urine is coming out ice cold, your body must be raising the temperature of the water. So calories are being burned.

Let's figure out exactly what you're burning when you drink a 16-ounce (0.5 liter) glass of ice water:

• The temperature of ice water can be estimated at zero degrees Celsius.
• Body temperature can be estimated at 37 degrees Celsius.
• It takes 1 calorie to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius.
• There are 473.18 grams in 16 fluid ounces of water.

So in the case of a 16-ounce glass of ice water, your body must raise the temperature of 473.18 grams of water from zero to 37 degrees C. In doing so, your body burns 17,508 calories. But that's calories with a little "c." Your body only burns 17.5 Calories, and in the grand scheme of a 2,000-Calorie diet, that 17.5 isn't very significant. But let's say you adhere to the "eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day" nutritional recommendation. In 64 ounces of water, there are 1,892.72 grams. So to warm up all that water in the course of a day, your body burns 70,030 calories, or 70 Calories.

So drinking ice water alone won't burn as many calories as you may have hoped.


Drinking 2-3 glasses of it is proven to help burn 200 extra calories a day!

Green tea is scientifucally proven to give some exceptional health benefit:

• Green tea contains fluoride. Green tea fights cavity-causing bacteria in the mouth. Mouthwashes containing green tea are now on the market.
• Green tea is rich in powerful antioxidants, which help rid the body of cell damaging free radicals.
• Green tea also supports a healthy heart, preventing 'bad cholesterol' from building up in the blood.
• Research shows that Asian countries, which consume green tea regularly, have low rates of cancer

Studies have also shown that green tea is capable of reducing the absorption of fat from the gastrointestinal tract into the bloodstream right after meals. Catechins in the green tea are believed to work by suppressing the lipid absorption from the diet. This catechin action is essential since it prevents the body from accumulating fat, while helping to reduce cholesterol at the same time.

In one animal study, a group of rats were fed with a diet that contained a substantial amount of catechins; while the other group was given polyphenol-free food. The study results showed that the rats given a catechin diet were observed to have a higher fat excretion in their feces. This study was thought to have the same results in humans.


Weight gain typically occurs when excess sugar and fat are stored in the body as fat cells. By drinking green tea to lose weight, you help your body get rid of these fat cells. The catechins in green tea, specifically the epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), effectively inhibit the glucose movement in these fat cells, thus preventing obesity. Green tea also acts as glucose regulator by slowing the rise in blood sugar levels after a meal, preventing high insulin spikes, which lead to fat storage.


Drinking slimming teas helps you not only burn calories by accelerating metabolism, but also to cleanse the body from toxins. Special kinds of slimming teas like Lingzhi Power Slim Tea would add some additional health benefits and the significant increase in energy is one of the. Energy and positive attitude are the number one requirement in successful weight loss.

Obviously, if you are ready to lose some extra weight, your best choice is drinking slimming teas or at least hot green teas. Drinking ice water burns some extra calories, but not as well as we may hope.