Water Retention: Diet To Banish Water Weight, Swollen Legs, Bloating
Sugar itself doesn’t cause water retention, but an over-indulgence in sugar can make your body over-produce the hormone insulin. It’s this insulin which causes water retention. Insulin helps your body turn sugar into energy or into fat (if you have eaten so much sugar that you cannot use it all). Consuming too many sugary foods [...]
Any foods that you don’t digest very well can give you water retention. If these happen to be carbohydrate foods then you will lose water weight soon after starting a low-carb diet. When you stop the diet the water weight will return because you have resumed eating the foods that were a problem for you. [...]
Linda Lazarides is author of six books including "The Waterfall Diet" on water retention, "Principles of Nutritional Therapy" and "Treat Yourself with Nutritional Therapy". She is founder of the British Association for Nutritional Therapy and has successfully treated hundreds of people referred to her by doctors.