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Fluid Retention: Diet and Treatment
Fluid retention occurs in certain physiological situations (pregnancy, menopause, pre-menstrual period) and in many diseases (heart, kidney, liver, etc.)..
Always manifests as a soft tissue swelling due to fluid accumulation especially in those areas.
Water is the most abundant element in the body and reaches 72% of body weight of an adult. It is distributed in three main compartments:
1. Intracellular: that which is within the cells.
2. Intravascular: that which is inside the blood vessels.
3. Interstitial which is somewhere in between, or in the tissues around the cells.
Each other all of these compartments are separated by a semipermeable membrane, or to allow passage of liquids and certain components thereof. Fluid retention occurs when an imbalance between the forces that regulate the passage of fluids from one compartment to another. If the water supply is abundant intravascular space to interstitial fluid appears retensionable.
Fluid retention is one of the hidden factors of weight gain, which is evident both on the scale as in the mirror. They can occur either by lifestyle (sedentary) and hormonal fluctuations (pregnancy, menopause, pre-menstrual period), imbalance in fluid intake or significant disease (cirrhosis, heart failure, hypertension, cancer, malnutrition, etc.). . Read the rest of this entry »
Erroneous diets (I)
Every day, lots of wrong diets that are followed faithfully by many gullible and that not only do not produce an adequate weight loss, but can be harmful to health.
1. Diet Water
It consists of drinking only water and vitamins and mineral complexes. On this diet, glucose needed by the brain will be extracted glycogen (a type of carbohydrate) stored in the liver.
After the first days, the glycogen stores are depleted and the brain gets the 100 grams of glucose need per day from protein.
The muscles and other body obtain energy by burning fat in a process that generates acetone, a substance that removes the feeling of hunger.
The use of proteins, which are plastic material of the muscles and other parts of the body, makes them suffer a deterioration in structure and function, making them especially dangerous when it affects the heart muscle.
The basal metabolic rate, which would be our caloric needs if we were to no activity, is reduced and tend to decrease in physical activity. If it continues to insist on water diet, muscle failure risks, especially the heart, which can kill the patient.