What is sassy water and why is cyberspace suddenly abuzz with interest? Associated with searches for the phrases "sassy water" and "sassy water recipe" are the terms "flat belly diet" so I am assuming that they're related. But what is so special about this water?When I first read it I thought it was a brand of bottled water which promises therapeutic and miraculous results after continued use. It turns out my assumption was quite correct. Sassy water was invented by a person named Sassy but it's not a brand, and it's not bottled either. In fact, it can be made right in your own kitchens following a
recipe that promises a flat belly upon continued use. The concoction is quite simple, made up of plain tap water, ginger, cucumber, lemon and mint leaves, and designed not to make one lose weight but to relax one's gastrointestinal tract and thus avoid bloating.
According to the Daily Mail, together with sassy water and the Flat Belly Diet, one must follow these steps to have a flat tummy, losing "seven pounds and five inches all over in just FOUR days!"
Eat four meals a day (including one smoothie). Little and often helps your body to digest food more easily - avoiding bloating. The foods recommended on this program have been specifically chosen for their anti-bloat qualities.
Take a quick five-minute after-meal walk. Moving your body helps release air trapped in your gastrointestinal tract.
Drink two liters of Sassy Water daily. Devised by nutrition director Cynthia Sassy, the ingredients in her water aren't just for flavor: the ginger will help to calm and soothe your GI tract. You can also drink 100 per cent pure herbal teas such as chamomile.Sassy Water Recipe/Sassy Water Ingredients
2 liters (3 1/2 pints) water
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 medium cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced
1 medium lemon, thinly sliced
12 mint leaves
Combine all ingredients in a large jug, chill in the refrigerator and let the flavours blend overnight.
Eat slowly. Often, when you eat quickly, you take in large gulps of air which gets trapped in your digestive system and causes bloating.
In addition to this, the Daily Mail also published an article that tackles the specifics of achieving a flat tummy in four days. The Flat Belly Diet is a groundbreaking eating plan devised by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sassy of Prevention, America's most popular health magazine. It promises a thinner, lighter you by abolishing the foods, drinks and habits that cause bloating. There is also a quiz you can take to find out if you are prone to bloating and what can be done about it. All these can be found here: Flat Belly Diet.
The question now is, "Does it work?" With almost everybody binging on food during the holidays, diets like this are much in-demand. Everybody wants something fast and easy. The Flat Belly Diet and the Sassy Water Diet look easy enough, but do they work as promised? This review by New York's Examiner.com aims to shed some light on that.Flat Belly Diet Review
The only part of the Flat Belly Diet that gives me pause is its assertion that eating monounsaturated fatty acids specifically targets belly fat; unfortunately, many people may purchase this book under the false impression that the exercises and meals in it are designed especially for decreasing their tummy girth. A good deal of research has gone into stomach-shrinking methods, and they universally find that, while eating less and exercising decreases the fat in your body OVERALL, you can't just target one area alone. You'll lose weight and inches from your stomach, in other words, but you'll lose it from everywhere else too, and possibly not quite in the proportions you had wished. And no amount of stomach crunches will burn fat only in your stomach. You'll develop some kicking stomach muscles and burn fat all over your body, but not just in your stomach.
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