If you want to reduce water/fluid retention, it's no good cutting down on fluids. - You need to cut down on salt and salty food.

If you cut down on fluids - i.e. if you don't drink enough, you will get thirsty and headachey. - It is salt/sodium that is holding excess liquid in your body, so it is your intake of salt and salty food that needs to be lowered.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, angina, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

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