Water Retention: Is That Bloated and Puffy Feeling Anything To Worry About?
January 5, 2009 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Detoxing, Foods For Fluid Balance, Harm of Low Level Oxygen, Nutrition, Water Retention
“Everyone gets a little bloated and puffy feeling, right? It’s a bit annoying to get up and use the toilet all night long, but no worries…..right?”
If your doctor isn’t concerned, why should you be?
It’s just a little water retention.
There Are Reasons YOU Should Be Concerned About Excess Fluid:
- Your body becomes completely out of balance when it holds on to fluid in an effort to protect you.
- Any excess fluid interferes with absorption of OXYGEN and NUTRITION!
- The sooner you achieve a healthy fluid balance, the less damage will be caused to your kidneys, heart and other vital organs.
- Rapid accumulation of fluids can be life threatening.
- Not using water effectively stresses your body.
- If you use water more effectively you will use oxygen, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients more effectively.
Creating a healthy fluid balance may be as simple as reducing your exposure to toxins, making better food choices, or supplementation with the right amount of the right nutrient.
Feeling better may be within your grasp.
Water, Precious Water!
Your body needs water! It is an important component of every one of the trillions of cells that makes up your body.
As well as carrying nutrients and oxygen to the cells, water eliminates waste products from your body.
When your body loses the ability to maintain your fluid balance, you are on a slippery slope of deterioration.
- At first you may notice it in your skin and hair
- Then you will start noticing it in your energy level
- Your mental clarity and attitude will suffer as well
The most likely cause of early water retention is foods you eat frequently.
When your daily favorites start to cause an allergy or sensitivity related histamine release, you will retain water.
Do you eat out frequently?
Food Matters!
November 24, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Asthma, COPD- Lung Disease, Cholesterol, Depression, Detoxing, Diabetes, Foods For Fluid Balance, Heart, High Blood Pressure, Nutrition, Sleep Apnea
Have you seen the trailer for the new movie? I stumbled across it on You Tube and began jumping for joy.
At LAST an effort to get the message out!
You are what you eat!
You are killing yourself with the food choices you make!
If you aren’t operating out of a victim mentality, you should be able to hear the message.
Listen UP! The length and quality of your life depend on it!
Now click on a category in the right had column and find out more information that will change your life. READ!
Health is about taking care of yourself.
NOW is the time to change your ways and do what is best for yourself and your family.
If you are already putting this information into practice, then reach someone who isn’t and tell them about this new movie. Let’s hope CHANGE is coming.
Relaxing, breath building, and oxygen with exercise matter!
AND
The trailer is enough to open your eyes, but the Food Matters DVD is really a learning experience.
You and your family NEED this information!
Get your copy NOW!
Many blessings,
Carrie
Heart Failure Solutions
PS– Remember everyday:
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Relax and Release tension
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Take deeep breaths
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Be active in a way that adds joy to your life
Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter
How Important Is Oxygen?
November 12, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Asthma, Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Choice, Diagnostics, Foods For Fluid Balance, Harm of Low Level Oxygen, Heart, Oxygen, Relax, Sleep Apnea
If you have low oxygen levels you are dying.
Denial is not effective treatment for low oxygen levels. Even if you “feel okay”.
Oxygen hitches a ride on your red blood cells in order to travel around your body. If your oxygen level is too low (below 92%) the oxygen molecules can’t make the leap. The pressure is too low.
When your oxygen level is below 92%, the oxygen that is in your blood cruises around in your circulation but the pressure isn’t high enough for it to actually get where it is needed.
Want to improve low oxygen levels? Read more
Do You Eat Too Much Sugar?
November 7, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Detoxing, Diabetes, Foods For Fluid Balance, Heart, Nutrition
The Center for Disease Control says that about one-third of all people with diabetes do not know they have it.
I keep meaning to write a post about diabetes. Everywhere I go I am reminded that I need to write that diabetes post.
Life is keeping me so busy that I just haven’t had time to do research on diabetes. I felt like I didn’t know enough, and needed to find more information.
Today it hit me!
All of us push this to the bottom of the to do list. You know heart disease and diabetes are on the rise. But you don’t take the time to evaluate what you are eating and make changes until some health problem forces you to.
Don’t wait to get sick!
The world eats 160 million tons of sugar.
What can you do? Read more
What Foods Help Get Rid of Fluid Retention?
November 5, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Choice, Detoxing, Foods For Fluid Balance, Heart, Nutrition, Sleep Apnea
ne of my clients asked me what they could eat to get rid of fluid retention today.
It isn’t an easy question to answer because there are many causes of fluid retention that will not be healed by eating foods that make you pee.
Some foods can make you retain fluid by slowing down your kidneys, while others can help your kidneys work better.
Some other causes of fluid retention include anemia, protein deficiency, and an abnormally high need for one or more vitamins or minerals.
Keep in mind that fluid retention is NOT simple to treat, and if you don’t get GREAT results on your own, FIND the help you need.
Cover the simple stuff first
- drink plenty of water everyday even when you are bloated (unless you doctor advises you not to because of kidney failure)
- have your hormones checked
If increasing your water intake doesn’t help, and your hormone levels are normal, experiment with the following tips:
Foods that cause you to release fluid: Read more
Will Low Blood Oxygen Levels Kill You?
November 2, 2008 by Carrie Tucker
Filed under Breath Building, COPD- Lung Disease, Choice, Detoxing, Diagnostics, Foods For Fluid Balance, Heart, High Blood Pressure, Oxygen, Relationship, Relax, Sleep Apnea
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Low oxygen levels will kill you slowly, OR can kill you instantly.
For years I worked in a very large hospital in Tacoma, Washington. I can not count the times that I have been part of a CPR effort on someone who had taken their oxygen off to get out of bed, and then experienced a cardiac arrest in the bathroom.
Very low oxygen levels can cause stimulation of your vagus nerve, which can stop your heart. Bearing down can also stimulate the vagus nerve.
You do NOT want to have low oxygen levels when you are sitting on the toilet!
2am, lunch time for night shift, the familiar bells, bing-bing-bing. Code 4 room xyz, Code 4 room xyz!
Instead of lunch, we were on our knees in shit, trying to save someones life.
You WANT to meet your oxygen needs, especially when you are on the toilet.
If you have low blood oxygen levels any time you exert yourself, sleep, habitually hold your breath, or anything else you might do, you are robbing your vital organs of the oxygen needed for wellness.
If you have low blood oxygen levels you WILL lose your eye sight, your short term memory, your strength, and your charming disposition.
Guaranteed.
If your low blood oxygen levels become extreme enough Read more
