Water Retention: Diet To Banish Water Weight, Swollen Legs, Bloating
Some types of water retention occur when water and protein leak from your blood into your tissues. The protein may stay in the tissues, where it becomes a focus for attracting water retention. If you take diuretics, your kidneys will work harder, and will extract more water from your blood. Some water may leave your [...]
The Waterfall Diet aims to remove up to seven different causes of hidden water retention. It can help you safely lose excess water weight and can also combat problems such as swollen legs, feet, ankles, fingers or tummy, idiopathic edema, high blood pressure and premenstrual syndrome (PMS). The diet is not the same for everyone. [...]
Help For Swollen Legs, PMS, High Blood Pressure Water retention can cause many health problems, including swollen legs, arthritis and high blood pressure. If you have premenstrual swelling or bloating, this is also due to water retention. Pre-eclampsia of pregnancy, idiopathic edema and chronic venous insufficiency are also water retention-related problems. Most people use the Waterfall [...]
Swollen legs and ankles are caused by water retention. When your circulation has problems working against the effects of gravity, your blood collects in the lower part of your body. The extra pressure on your blood vessels makes them leak fluid into the tissues of your legs and ankles. This causes swelling, and your skin [...]
Some well-known causes of water retention include heart or kidney problems. These are due to a reduced ability of the heart or kidneys to do their job, and can cause severe swelling of the legs and ankles. Weak circulation in the leg veins is probably the most common cause of water retention in legs and [...]
If you suffer from water retention you could have several possible symptoms. Water retention symptoms vary from one person to the next. Some of the classic symptoms include A swollen, bloated tummy Swollen legs, feet or ankles Exercise and low calorie diet doesn’t help you lose weight Getting up at night to urinate Waking up [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
