-Scientific ways to lose weight
from "Rust Out" by Dr. Royce Bailey, page 8
Contrary to popular belief, drinking fluids with your meals doesn’t wash away your vitamins or calories, as I was taught when growing up, but it can make you fat!  Here’s how:  your stomach requires it’s contents to be liquid when sending it on to the small bowel (intestines) for further digestion.  It takes, on the average, 20 minutes for your brain to register that it is satisfied when you are eating.  This should mean that your stomach is full.  But if you keep putting liquids into the digestion process, that empties the stomach before that “full” signal gets to your brain. That can add up to 2-3 times more calories being eaten before you’ll feel satisfied at each meal.  That will add up day after day, year after year.

References:
American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund’s Global Dietary Recommendations to Prevent 20-40% of All Cancers. “Food, Nutrition And The Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective.”  Reviewed in, “Internal Medicine News,” November 1, 1997: 14.
White, E.G., “Counsels On Diet And Food,” Pacific Press Publishing Ass., 1864: 311, 419-420, 432.
Bailey, R.K., “Recommendations On Weight Loss,” Loma Linda University, 1985
Becker, G.L., “Heart Smart, A Plan For Low Cholesterol Living,” Pocket Books, 1987: 17-65.