{"id":757068,"date":"2026-09-01T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757068\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:54:14","slug":"drinking-lemon-water-burns-belly-fat-what-this-popular-morning-ritual-can-and-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757068\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDrinking lemon water burns belly fat\u201d: What this popular morning ritual can and can&#8217;t do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many people, the day begins with a glass of warm water and a squeeze of lemon. The ritual feels healthy, simple and almost too good to question. Somewhere along the way, however, lemon water picked up a much bigger promise: that it can melt belly fat.<\/p>\n<p>That claim sounds appealing, especially when abdominal fat is often the hardest part of weight loss. But there is an important difference between a healthy habit and a fat-burning treatment. Lemon water can fit into a healthy routine, but it does not have a special ability to target fat around the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Narendra BS, Lead Consultant &#8211; Endocrinology &amp; Diabetology, Aster Whitefield Hospitals, explained why the popular belief needs a closer look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many people, the day begins with a glass of warm water and a squeeze of lemon. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[249891,249894,59,102,185352,249892,249893,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-757068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aster-whitefield-hospitals","tag-belly-fat-burning","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-lemon-water","tag-lemon-water-drink","tag-morning-ritual","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}