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Strong Opposition
Even though the study says water makes your body burn more calories, it didn’t actually measure whether that happened — so that part of the claim is just guessing.
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Contradicting (1)
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The study found that drinking more water helped people lose weight, but it didn’t measure if their bodies burned more calories because of the water — so it can’t prove the water made them burn calories. The claim says this proof is missing, and that’s correct.
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