04/03/2022
🍋 Lemon water is all the rage these days.
There are no doubt lemons are delicious, but does adding them to water make you healthier?
1. It promotes hydration - Water is the best beverage for hydration, but some people don’t like the taste of it on its own. Adding lemon enhances water’s flavor, which may help you drink more.
2. It’s a good source of vitamin C - Lemons are high in vitamin C, a primary antioxidant that helps protect cells from damaging free radicals. Vitamin C may reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke, and lower blood pressure.
3. It supports weight loss - Lemon water can help promote satiety and fullness, which may decrease calorie intake and lead to weight loss.
4. It improves your skin quality - Vitamin C found in lemons may help reduce skin wrinkling, dry skin from aging, and damage from the sun
5. It aids digestion - Drinking lemon water as a daily morning laxative to help prevent constipation. Drinking warm or hot lemon water when you wake up may help get your digestive system moving.
6. It freshens breath - You might avoid bad breath by drinking a glass of lemon water after meals and first thing in the morning. Lemon is thought to stimulate saliva and water also helps prevent a dry mouth, which can lead to bad breath caused by bacteria.
7. It helps prevent kidney stones - The citric acid in lemons may help prevent kidney stones. Citrate, a component of citric acid, paradoxically makes urine less acidic and may even break up small stones. Drinking lemon water not only gets you citrate, but also the water you need to help prevent or flush out stones.
