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# Drinking excess water does not help weight loss
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/water_weight_loss_0704150641/
- Published: 2015-07-04T07:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:34:42.000Z
- Description: Boston Children's Hospital researchers tested the common weight-loss advice to drink eight cups of water a day and found that increasing water intake had no effect on body weight in adolescents.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Obesity, Avoiding Illness, #vivvo-import

Saturday July 4, 2015 (foodconsumer.org) -- Scientists from Obesity Prevention Center Boston Children's Hospital in Boston , MA, United States conducted a study and found drinking a lot of water does not help weight loss in adolescents.Advice to increase water intake up to 8 cups per day is often provided as part of a weight loss diet. But the study found that this approach did not render any effect on body weight in adolescents. (David Liu)[Julia Wong, Cara Ebbeling, Lisa Robinson, Henry Feldman and David Ludwig, Does the Recommendation to Drink 8 Cups of Water Per Day Promote Weight Loss? The FASEB Journal 2015](http://www.fasebj.org/content/29/1%5FSupplement/747.18.short?ref=foodconsumer.org)