You'll accept any simple trick to make a new diet work, right? Adding lemon juice to coffee to burn fat faster was a TikTok tip that went viral this week.
A British dietitian fully disproved the allegation. A seasoned registered dietician says this coffee-lemon juice mix may shift the scale for certain folks.
After 30 years as a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator, Karen Graham, RD, CDE won Canada's National Health Information Award.
Braso's recent TikTok post suggested she'd been adding lemon juice to coffee as part of the #coffeeandlemondiet challenge to lose weight.
The strategy failed after a week, so she posted that she'd abandoned it. "There is no physiological explanation that would justify mixing coffee and lemon to lose weight,
Graham's first impression? "My immediate thought is that doesn't sound very tasty," the dietician told Eat This, Not That! "I wouldn't want lemon juice
According to diabetes educator Graham, "We do know that [lemon juice] decreases the glycemic index, the rate at which blood sugar is absorbed into the blood."
She adds, "Lemon juice in salad, coffee, or fish decreases carbohydrate absorption. Well known." Graham adds "your sugars won't raise as quickly, so that's good."
However, lemon juice's blood sugar effect "Doesn't mean it's going to help you with weight loss," Graham argues, calling the lemon juice-coffee combo
Graham suggested several reasons this lemon juice in coffee weight reduction challenge could work. "Maybe that cuts [an individual's]