Diuretic is No Miracle

Wanna lose ten pounds in two days? Most of us would, but seeing as how this medical anomaly is unrealistic and unattainable, what is the deal with all of these diet guarantees that seem to offer salvation for the weight loss challenged? Can any of those products really hold the key to a thinner you?

My research says a resounding, "no." But please realize that these miraculous dieting solutions may initially yield the desired number on your body weight scale, but in the long run, they do nothing more than damage the body on a cellular and emotional level.

It's Water Under The Cellular Bridge

As I said previously, the little number, or in your mind, the big number, on your scale may have decreased when you or someone you know participated in one of these fad diets, but the results are not meant to last. The typical diet, which involves nothing more than drinking a strange, juice- like concoction for two days, seems to enable its users to lose a significant amount of weight in next to no time, and aside from starving for two days, people generally seem to be thrilled with their results. Here in lays the problem.

Yes, you appear to be much thinner, but in your ritualistic starvation of your body, you have done nothing more than eliminate the body of water weight and cause your metabolism to slow down, which means that you will ultimately gain back even more weight. These "diets" merely act as diuretics, which push water out of the body at a rapid pace. This water release causes the kidneys to work overtime, and can damage the kidneys if not enough water is present. There are medical conditions that require the use of diuretics, but over-the-counter use for dieting purposes is not safe.

Having too little water in the body can lead to the buildup of toxic chemicals, and if these chemicals are not sufficiently and thoroughly eliminated from the body, death can occur. The longer people go with these toxins in their bodies, the harder it is to eliminate them. Heart disease, obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, stomach ulcers, hypertension, cancer, MS, Alzheimer's, and many other diseases can result more rapidly from long-term dehydration at the cellular level.

Solvable Solutions

Many people feel that when they drink water that the after effects are that of bloating and discomfort. Even more people complain that the amount of water that is "recommended" to maintain a healthy body is both painful to gulp down as well as time consuming. Most often, the water that people drink has an incredibly high surface tension. This means that the cells have a hard time actually absorbing the water that one does drink, which leads to both bloating and the need to drink a lot more water than is really necessary. A simple solution to this problem is to explore low surface tension water.

Though most tap and bottled water has high surface tenions, there are ways to make water more available to your body's cells.

Silica is a natural mineral and special forms of microcluster silica are small enough to change the absorption properties of water. Ask your vitamin store for it.