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Fight Water Retention: These foods will help

2022-09-30T12:12:42.741Z


Fight Water Retention: These foods will help Created: 09/30/2022, 13:58 Swollen hands and legs indicate water retention. The wrong diet is often to blame. These foods dehydrate the body. When limbs swell and more water accumulates in the body, this can have a variety of causes. Illnesses, hormones, lack of exercise, medication or even the weather can affect the water content. The wrong diet oft


Fight Water Retention: These foods will help

Created: 09/30/2022, 13:58

Swollen hands and legs indicate water retention.

The wrong diet is often to blame.

These foods dehydrate the body.

When limbs swell and more water accumulates in the body, this can have a variety of causes.

Illnesses, hormones, lack of exercise, medication or even the weather can affect the water content.

The wrong diet often leads to water retention inside our body.

On the other hand, there are foods that can have a dehydrating effect.

What is water retention?

With water retention, also called edema, the body tissue swells.

This swelling occurs when the pressure in the lymph or blood vessels increases.

Water is pressed into the tissue, which collects there and leads to unpleasant swelling.

Upper arms, ankles, buttocks or thighs are most commonly affected.

But the so-called water retention can also occur on the face.

This test can help to find out the cause: press the swollen area briefly with your thumb and then observe how the tissue behaves.

If the skin immediately returns to its original state, everything is fine so far.

However, if a dent remains visible for a short time, water has accumulated in the affected area.

Watermelons and bananas can help against water retention © IMAGO/Martin Wagner

There is a quick trick for pain relief: put your feet up so that they are at least at heart level.

Ideally at a 90 degree angle.

It works best if you lean your legs against the wall while lying on the floor with a pillow.

Don't miss anything: You can find everything to do with health and well-being in the regular health newsletter from our partner Merkur.de.

Water retention due to improper diet

Salts are among the worst triggers for water retention.

Just eight grams of this substance can bind up to one liter of water in the body.

Finished products and fast food are not among the healthiest foods anyway.

And to make matters worse, they also promote the formation of water retention.

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Industrial sugar is also linked to water retention.

Alcohol and caffeinated beverages should also be avoided if you want to avoid water retention.

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Potassium-rich nutrition promotes the regulation of water balance.

The electrolyte stimulates kidney function and thereby improves drainage.

Bananas, carrots, asparagus or tomato paste are considered to be particularly high in potassium and are therefore ideally suited as natural medicine.

In addition, olive oil increases potassium absorption in the body.

Magnesium can also contribute to dehydration.

Foods such as sauerkraut, blackberries or spinach balance the water balance in the body and can thus contribute to healing.

By the way: hemp seeds are extremely rich in magnesium and their ingredients also reduce swelling.

Coriander or flaxseed also help flush out toxins and fluids.

It sounds paradoxical at first, but it's true: if you want to fight water retention, you should drink as much tea or water as possible.

Vegetables or fruit with a high water content are also suitable, as they promote the urge to urinate and thus combat unwanted deposits.

Grapefruit, pineapple, cucumber, celery, watermelon or lettuce in particular contain a lot of water.

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Source: merkur

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