Less Drinking Water Increases Blood Sugar?

Less consume water not only causes dehydration but also a high blood sugar levels. Therefore, in addition maintain a diet, adequate water consumption is recommended to prevent blood sugar levels rise.

When blood sugar levels above normal, but not too high to be called diabetes, doctors call pre-diabetes sebgai. Those who are diagnosed with pre-diabetes are at high risk to be diabetic if their blood sugar levels are not maintained.

In a recent study, adults who consume only half a liter of water each day (about two cups), tends to increase blood sugar levels to pre-diabetes, compared with people who drink more water.

Although this study found an association between intake of water with blood sugar, but does not show a causal relationship. Presumably this could be explained by biology.

According to Lise Bankers, researchers from the French National Research Institute, a hormone called vasopressin, may be explained. Vasopressin, which is also called antidiuretic hormone, helps regulate the storage of water in the body.

When we are dehydrated, vasopressin levels increased so that the kidneys try to conserve water supplies. Besides an increase in vasopressin levels will also increase blood sugar levels.

According to the banker, in the liver there is a vasopressin receptor, the organ responsible for the production of blood sugar in the body. A study showed that injecting vasopressin in healthy people will cause a temporary increase in blood sugar levels.

The study was conducted on 3615 French people aged 35-65 years and have normal blood sugar levels in the beginning. Approximately 19 percent said they only drank less than half a liter of water each day, while the rest drank a liter of water or more.

After 9 years, a total of 565 study participants had abnormal levels of blood sugar and 202 people are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. When the researchers looked at participants' eating habits of the water, they found people who drank less than half a liter of water every day, 28 percent are at risk of suffering from blood sugar rise.

As long as there is no statistical data that says the link between water intake with the occurrence of diabetes. However, people who drink little water generally favor drinks that contain sugar that can lead to weight gain and impaired blood sugar control.