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 or drinks on a regular basis could lead to very high levels of insulin in your blood. Insulin makes you retain sodium, a mineral that’s found in salt. Whenever you retain sodium, you also retain water. The only way to get rid of this water is to avoid sugar. This is not easy, as it’s added to so many foods and drinks.

Low-carb diets are of course sugar-free, which is one reason why they can appear to make you lose a lot of weight very quickly. This weight  is often not fat but water, which comes back as soon as you stop the diet.

The Waterfall Diet also requires avoiding sugar, but unlike low-carb diets it works on several other causes of water retention.

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1. Salt And Water Retention

Consuming too much salty food or drink may cause some water retention, but not necessarily a lot.

You may be eating more salt than you realise. Lots of convenience foods, and even common foods like bread, contain salt without even tasting salty.

The active ingredient in salt which causes water retention is sodium. Sodium is not just found in salt, it is also in baking powder (used to make cakes) and in flavour-enhancing additives such as monosodium glutamate (MSG). It’s quite hard to avoid consuming excessive salt or excessive sodium if you regularly eat convenience foods.

If you have water retention and are really determined to reduce salt and sodium, then eating unprocessed foods and making as many of your own foods as possible will help. That way you know exactly how much salt is in your food, because you have to add it yourself.

Salt is one of the causes of water retention, but is not the only one. For most people the maximum amount of water retention which they could expect to lose by changing to a low salt / low sodium diet is probably about 2 lbs. However some people are more salt-sensitive than others and may notice that their water retention gets significantly worse if they eat salty food.

If you have any experience of this we’d like to hear from you – do leave us a comment.

Salt And Water Retention is a post from: Water-Retention.Net

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