Hot water with lemon: The "hot" morning drink trend. Photo Credit: Shape.com Many social media trend-setters are claiming that drinking a cup of hot water with lemon each morning kick-starts their daily metabolism, "speeding" it up and helping them to burn energy and lose weight--but is there research to support the possibility that these claims could be true for their followers? Studies published by Boschmann and colleages in one 2003 article investigated the effects of drinking water on bodily energy expenditure. The study supposed changes in blood pressure, as well as heat produced to warm cooled water to body temperature, following water ingestion lead to increases in metabolism in both men and women studied. The average energy used by participants after drinking ~2 cups of water was measured to be ~25 Calories. Though this small study had only 14 young adult pa...
