Water Retention

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 [...]

This site is about Linda Lazarides’ diet that can help you lose up to 14 pounds in a week by shedding hidden water retention.
If you have great difficulty in reaching a normal weight, and if your doctor cannot find any medical explanation, the chances are that your fluid balance mechanisms have gone wrong and you [...]

Water rich with oxygen and vitamins passes from your smallest blood vessels (your capillaries) into the surrounding tissues, where it nourishes your cells. But if something goes wrong with the pressure in your capillaries, or if they get too “leaky”, then too much fluid accumulates in the tissue spaces between the cells, and cannot get [...]

Water retention is not always easy to detect. How will you know if your fluid balance has gone wrong? It can be hard to tell if your excess weight is mostly water, since water is everywhere in the body. Even your doctor can sometimes have difficulty confirming whether you are retaining fluid.
Doctors can tell if [...]