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Water is a natural appetite suppressant and metabolize the body's stores of fat. It is the safest way to keep your appetite down as it will make you feel full and flush itself out of your system through urination and sweat. This isn't to say that you should drink water all of the time and not eat food if you are trying to loose weight, but drinking water is a way to make your stomach feel full and tell your brain that you are not hungry it also makes your body work.

Your body needs to process the nutrients contained in natural mineral water by firstly heating the water you have consumed to match the temperature of your body. In heating the water up, your body uses energy, which requires the burning of calories. Natural mineral water does not carry and caloric value, it has no fat content, no cholesterol content and very little sodium content, so in drinking natural mineral water you are causing your body to burn calories, thus allowing you to lose weight. Its an easy diet to adopt.

The colder the water you drink the more calories you burn, therefore the more weight you lose

Like any weight loss program, this one is not without risks. The body ha to work hard if too much mineral water is in the body, most of the work is done by your kidney's. By drinking too much mineral water or even tap water over a long period of time, you could damage your kidney's. Drinking to much mineral water has also proved problematic for people with serious health problems like congestive heart disease as it can cause a serious edema.

If you plan on doing the cold water diet, you should supplement with vitamins to replace the vitamins and minerals that will get flushed out of your body by drinking extra mineral water.

Please Note: Before adopting any diet you should ALWAYS consult with your doctor.....

Of course there are benefits to a mineral water diet. Scientists agree that drinking mineral water is a good way to rid your body of toxins, if the mineral water is toxin free, like the volcanic mineral water produced by Q2. Getting rid of toxins could prove to be beneficial to a person's health and even give them more energy.

Talk to your doctor before you begin any diet. The best diets involve a combination of change to eating habits and a boost in exercise. Replacing other drinks, tea , coffee and alcohol in your diet with mineral water is a good option, but only when your thirsty.