Lemon water: Why it benefits you

Look me straight in the eyes and repeat after me: lemon water is good for you. It's good for you and, especially in summer, very appealing so it's no sacrifice to have a little lemonade every day.

I'm a big enthusiast of lemon water, I drink it every mornings and my friends laugh at the vehemence with which I preach its virtues. Lemon water is made in a second and it feels wonderful.

Drinking lemon water on an empty stomach might not sound very appealing at first, but it's a matter of getting used to it, because it only has advantages:

Benefits of lemon water

1. Helps to be properly hydrated - We don't usually drink all the liquid we need, so including a lemonade in our daily routine is positive from every point of view.
2. It can help with weight loss - Careful, lemon water doesn't make you lose weight by itself. There's no point drowning yourself in lemon water while spending days lying on the couch and eating fatty pork. But if we use it to replace coffee a couple of times a week it's very possible we'll notice something after a couple of months.
3. Prevents degradation by oxidation - Lemons, like almost all fruits and vegetables, have antioxidant properties, which helps protect us from aging and to prevent cancer.
4. Healthy dose of vitamin C - If you squeeze just half a lemon into a glass of water you consume 6 calories (almost nothing), but one sixth of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C.
5. Helps to heal wounds - In addition to vitamin C, lemon provides a large amount of potassium and other minerals and vitamins. Vitamin C is an antioxidant and essential for producing collagen, necessary to repair tissues.
6. Strengthens the immune system - Lemon water also contains citric, malic, acetic and formic acids, which help fight bacteria and other pathogens that threaten the body.
7. Prevents obesity and cardiovascular diseases - Substances present in lemon have actions related to the prevention of chronic inflammatory diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, obesity and some cancers.

References:

• Benefits of drinking lemon water. Infosalus.com
• Benefits of drinking lemon water: myths and truths. DMedicina.com

Warm water or cold water

According to Dr. Amy Myers, hot or warm water is absorbed better than cold. She recommends drinking it warm on an empty stomach, but throughout the day you can continue to consume cold lemonade.

How to prepare lemon water

1. You take a glass,
2. you fill it with water, a quarter liter will do,
3. you cut a lemon in half with a good knife,
4. you squeeze the juice of one of the halves over the water with a manual juicer or with a lemon squeezer,
5. and you're done. Go for the lemon water. You won't say it took you long.

Rösle lemon press, Bérard wooden lemon press and Rösle manual juicer

If we haven't convinced you with all the reasons we've given to regularly consume lemon water it's because you're very tough to crack. But we ask you to give it a chance because it will surprise you.

Oh, and although doctors advise drinking warm or hot water to absorb it better, we can overdo it now in summer and consume lemon water ice cold. After all, no one is going to complain, right? If you feel like it, leaving a bottle in the fridge with lemon water will make it easier to drink it.