While promoting the elimination of excess fluids through the urine can feel like you are losing weight, as you might expect, weight loss is due solely to the loss of water and certainly not fat.
As for the treatment of hypertension, however, this category of foods certainly cannot guarantee the same level of effectiveness as diuretic drugs. Therefore, even when you want to combine pharmacological treatment with foods and herbal products with diuretic action, it is extremely important. discuss this in advance with your doctor.
In healthy people, a diet particularly rich in diuretic foods can be followed for a maximum of one or two days, for example in the presence of purely aesthetic problems, such as water retention and swelling, or for purification purposes after a period of overeating. Occasional use, however, must not turn into a recurring habit, as it is a rather dangerous practice, especially when it involves the strongest diuretics (not so much commonly used foods, as herbal remedies such as dandelion, goldenrod, horsetail, birch, juniper, nettle, grass and asparagus).
The use of diuretic foods for therapeutic purposes is particularly not recommended during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and for all people with edema, heart disease, arterial hypertension and kidney and / or liver disease.
of some foods are linked to their generous content of:
- Waterfall;
- Potassium;
- C vitamin;
- Caffeine;
- Vitamin B6;
- FOS and non-reabsorbable osmotic sugars at the tubular level.
Favored by the high digestibility, the diuretic action of foods is instead reduced by:
- Sodium and salt;
- Simple sugars;
- Complex carbohydrates.
