Water Retention

This is a story of how the waterfall diet not only got rid of water retention but cured a condition which had been diagnosed as psoriatic arthritis.
Some years ago I was consulted by a lady called Sally who had been told she had psoriatic arthritis. This is a combination of painful joints (in Sally’s case [...]

Barbara had severe water retention and consulted me in 1992 when she was seven months pregnant. She was aged 23 and a vegetarian, and it was her first pregnancy.
Food was a problem for Barbara. Her appetite was so poor that she only ate foods for their taste, not from hunger. While the rest of the [...]

Elaine had been on every kind of diet, and while the rest of her grew thin and lissom, her thighs remained fat and lumpy with cellulite that was loaded with water retention. No exercise ever made any difference to them either.
When she came to my consulting room, Elaine was sceptical that the Waterfall Diet could [...]

Carolyn Burris from Laguna Beach, California is a real person, with real before and after pictures. Here is the story of how she lost almost 20 pounds of water retention in just two months.
“I began the Waterfall Diet program in earnest beginning of August, 2009.  It is towards the end of September now and I [...]

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 [...]

Setting aside the diseases which can cause really gross water retention (these are mostly diseases of the heart, kidneys and liver), it is quite common  to retain up to 10 lbs of water weight. (That means excessive or abnormal water retention, not the water that needs to be in your body to prevent dehydration.) Occasionally [...]

Most experts agree that everyone needs to drink about 2 litres (that’s just over 4 pints, 2 quarts or 8 cups) of water a day.  In extremely hot weather, if you sweat a lot, or if you engage in a lot of sports, you may need to drink more than 2 litres of water a [...]

Diuretics are the best medicines to treat water retention caused by heart, liver or kidney problems. They are not very effective for water retention caused by other types of water retention, including

chronic venous insufficiency
premenstrual water retention
idiopathic edema

By causing dehydration they can actually make these problems worse.
Before buying diuretics (even natural herbal diuretics) get your doctor [...]

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.
The [...]

It’s certainly possible that it’s water retention.  Lots of people find that certain foods make them retain water. Beer has more yeast in it than other kinds of alcoholic drink, so you may be reacting to the yeast. It’s likely that other foods containing yeast are also unsafe foods for you, though their effects may [...]