Drinking Water Quality and Weight Gain

Drinking Water quality has long been considered important. From the poorest developing countries to the wealthiest developed nations, water quality is of vital concern.

Another enormous concern in many developed countries is weight gain - too much weight gain. Can water quality have anything to do with it?

Water Quality and Weight Gain in Cattle

Water quality and weight gain in cattle was found to have a connection in a study from 1999 to 2002 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Western Beef Development Centre of Canada. Separate groups of cattle were given access to different qualities of Drinking Water to see if it would affect their weight. The study found that there was a tendency for the cattle to gain a bit more weight when Drinking Water quality was higher. Researchers also noticed that the cattle spent more time drinking when water quality was improved. They reasoned that the cattle enjoyed the water more because the taste was better.

Water Quality and Weight in Humans

Might water quality and weight gain be related in humans? Or might water quality actually help humans lose weight?

1. Water Quality and Weight Gain

Several studies, this time with humans, have shown that water quality reduced by disinfection byproducts increases the risk of a baby being born with low birth weight (e.g., Savitz et al. 2005; Infante-Rivard 2004; Bove et al. 1995, 2002). It seems that if the mother’s Drinking Water quality is better during the third trimester, the baby will show proper weight gain.

Many recent studies have shown a different link between water quality and weight gain in adults. Poor water quality and weight gain went hand in hand, but this time too much weight resulted. One of the main tasks of the kidneys and liver is to filter and eliminate toxins from the body. These two organs use water to do this. If that water contains chlorine - or other pollutants - our organs must filter out those contaminants. Instead of processing fat into energy, the liver must process poor quality water. The fat moves into storage, and we gain weight.

2. Water Quality and Weight Loss

It has been found that persons trying to lose weight have greater success when they drink adequate amounts of water. Natural, healthy weight loss can only occur by increasing our intake of water. When you see lower numbers on the bathroom scales, you are seeing, primarily, the result of your liver changing stored fat into usable energy. As noted above, water quality has much to do with whether the liver will have the capacity to do that work.

Those lower numbers on the bathroom scales also indicate that your metabolism has increased - another result of drinking plenty of quality water. When you speed up your metabolism, your body is better able to absorb nutrients from your food. The result is weight loss.

Do Your Homework

Much has been written about water quality and weight gain. We cannot cover it all in this brief entry. For more information, we recommend the AQUASANA website. AQUASANA offers more detail about water quality and weight gain, as well as other water quality information. We review Aquasana Water Filtration on this web site. To read that review, click here or on the blue “Aquasana Water Filtration” button at the top of this page. To visit the AQUASANA website directly, click here.