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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 »

Yes, you read correctly. American research showed that your chances of a pregnancy, but if you just decline to healthy eating. Especially excess fiber would be a bad influence on the fertility of a woman, reports the Daily Mail.

The research shows that fiber-rich foods such as whole meal bread or pasta the hormone balance of women can interfere. The more of these products women ate, the lower the levels of the hormones that are essential in the fertilization process.

The researchers followed 250 women of childbearing age over 2 years. They discovered not only that the amount of hormones declined as much fiber they got inside, took the chance that there is no egg released.

It was already known that ovulation may not be obtained due to stress or extreme sports. But this is the first study showing that healthy diets also have a negative effect.