It sounds too good to be true. Just drinking more water can help you lose weight. But that's what researchers found. Drinking as little as 1% more water means you'll eat fewer calories.

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“Drinking about 16 ounces of water before a meal has been shown to help with weight loss,” Ansel says. In fact, one study published in the journal Obesity found that obese adults who drank ...

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