2023-05-19 16:35:00
CHRONIC. Lemon water allows you to fill up on good things. Beware, however, of the water temperature, as well as of received ideas!
By Boris Hansel, with Guillaume Paret (video)
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CEvery Friday, find, on Le Point.fr, the nutrition chronicle of Pr Boris Hansel, endocrinologist and nutritionist at Bichat Hospital in Paris. He is also the host of the health channel PuMS on YouTube.
It is often advised to drink a glass of warm water with lemon juice in the morning on an empty stomach for its stimulating, digestive or detox properties. But what is it really? Let’s start with the benefits. Drinking a glass of warm lemon water, without added sugar, every morning is a good idea to start the day off right…
Vitamins galore
When you wake up, drinking water contributes to hydration… And for those who really don’t want to drink, adding a lemony flavor can help to hydrate better. Lemon, meanwhile, has a clear virtue: it is a good source of vitamin C, 45 mg per 100 g… It is very useful for reaching the recommended intake of 110 mg/day. But beware of the water temperature: water that is too hot destroys the vitamins in the lemon. To prepare your hot lemon, the ideal is that the water is at body temperature, that is to say at 37 ° C.
READ ALSOKefir and kombucha: fermented drinks good for health? We also hear that drinking lemon juice dissolves kidney stones… This is not false, but in reality it depends on the chemical composition of the calculation. You will have to ask your doctor… In addition, lemons contain citric acid and various antioxidant molecules which might, in theory, protect our digestive tract once morest cancer and facilitate digestion. Honestly, this is all unproven…
In certain situations, beware of lemon
There are also a few situations where you have to be careful with lemon water. If you are prone to gastric reflux, it is better to avoid drinking it too often, and especially in the evening, at the risk of increasing heartburn and reflux…
We regularly read that lemon is a magic drink to whiten your teeth, unlike tea. But this is not a good idea, lemon being acidic, it will damage the enamel and cause the gums to retract, which will be more sensitive to hot and cold.
READ ALSOThis mixed salad avoids cravingsAnd there is the famous question of the interest of lemon to control its weight. Let’s be clear: the lemon contains pectin, a fibrous substance, which once in the intestine increases in volume. This can, in principle, give a feeling of a full stomach… But I must tell you the truth at the risk of disappointing you: lemon has no action on adipose tissue and no study has ever shown that lemon juice lemon made lose weight or had a detox action.
Either way, once you understand what warm lemon juice is really worth… you can enjoy it every day. When you wake up or later in the day, according to your desires!
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