Diet-cure natural diet with ginger water helps to reduce excess weight

Healthy tuber: Ginger can also help you lose weight

Ginger is known to many as a home remedy for cold symptoms. But the spicy tuber brings much more health benefits. Ginger can also help to lose weight, as shown in a scientific study.

Help with weight loss

To lose weight easier, it helps to move immediately after waking up. This can already start in bed, for example by moving your legs while lying down as if riding a bicycle. Weight loss can also be helped by drinking a glass of honey water in the morning, as this mix has a filling effect. Also recommended is ginger water. Ayurveda's Indian health science has been using the positive effects of this easy-to-make beverage for centuries.

Ginger water and tea can help you lose weight. In addition, one does with the drinks of his health something good, because ginger is full of important ingredients. (Image: Hetizia / fotolia.com)

Sharp helps to lose weight

Spicy food can help you lose weight. For example, in one study, subjects who ate all their main meals with chili showed reduced cravings for salty, fatty, and sweet foods.

Spicy drinks are also used to reduce weight. A study by Columbia University New York proves that losing weight with ginger works. According to the researchers, subjects who ate ginger tea were more quickly fed and therefore ate less.

Responsible for the "fat killer" effect are certain "agitators". Because chili and ginger contain the active ingredients capsaicin and gingerol, which trigger a heat irritation when consumed by their sharpness.

The human body responds to this with increased blood flow and sweating to curb the supposed overheating and cool the body. For this the metabolism is activated, which consumes additional calories. Thus, more fatty tissue is burned.

Start the day with ginger water

But ginger helps in weight loss not only in warm but also in cold drinks.

To make ginger water, first peel the tuber and cut it into thin slices, which are then added to one liter of water.

Experts advise the organic variant, as it is less contaminated with chemicals.

The water should then simmer for about 20 minutes and then cool. You can "spice up" the drink with a little lemon juice. If the whole thing is too spicy or sour, you can add some honey.

It is usually recommended to drink one to two glasses of ginger water in the morning in order to curb your appetite. But you can also enjoy it all day long.

The drink is also used in the Indian health teaching Ayurveda.

Wunderknolle against health complaints

The Wunderknolle is not only good for losing weight, ginger also helps against diseases. Thus, the tuber, according to a study, relieving menstrual pain. Even in cancer therapy ginger is sometimes used.

According to the German Cancer Aid, the root has a convincing effect against the stomach symptoms associated with chemotherapy such as nausea and vomiting.

Ginger is also popular as a home remedy for fullness. The tuber has digestive problems, diarrhea and many other ailments.

In natural medicine, the root has long been used against high blood lipid levels. In addition, ginger has an anti-inflammatory effect and can help strengthen the immune system.

However, people with a sensitive stomach could get problems with larger quantities, not everyone can stand the sharpness. Patients should consult their doctor if necessary. (Ad)