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What are the benefits of drinking water before meals?
Water is an important part of human body, and blood, lymph and body secretions are all related to water. Water accounts for about 60-70% of the adult's weight. So water is very important to us. Drinking water before eating can make us healthier!

Drinking water before meals is good, but don't drink too much.

When the food is not full at mealtime, the stomach will slowly secrete gastric juice to digest the food. Food enters the stomach through the mouth and can be digested immediately.

If you drink plenty of water before eating, it will dilute the gastric juice and weaken the digestion of gastric juice, so that food can not be completely digested and absorbed. Over time, it will easily lead to gastrointestinal diseases.

Therefore, it is best not to drink too much water before dinner, and try to avoid fruit juice or soda. Some people who are losing weight think that drinking plenty of water before meals can make their stomachs feel full, thus reducing their food intake and achieving the purpose of losing weight. Actually, it will hurt their stomachs. Drinking water before meals will have the following effects:

1。 Improve your concentration: It can help your brain keep alive and keep new information firmly in your memory.

2。 Improve immunity: it can improve the vitality of immune system and resist bacterial invasion.

3。 Antidepressant: A substance that can stimulate neurogenesis to fight depression.

4。 Anti-insomnia: water is a necessity for making natural sleep regulators.

5。 Anti-cancer: Make the hematopoietic system work normally, which helps to prevent many kinds of cancers.

6。 Prevention of disease: it can prevent the blockage of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.