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 Food intolerances (allergies)

 Protein deficiency (usually in people on very low-calorie diets)

 Deficiencies of vitamin B6 and/or magnesium

 Lack of fruit and vegetables

 Lack of exercise

 Excessive salt consumption

 Anaemia

 Some medications

 Inflammation due to high toxin levels

Unexplained water retention can account for 10 lbs or more of excess body weight. If you eat the right foods all this water can be urinated away within a week!

The Waterfall Diet provides foods that help address these causes, and omits foods that could potentially contribute to water retention. Many of the soup recipes in this book are suitable for the Waterfall Diet (see the Index on page 131). If you want to see whether you need the Waterfall Diet, try consuming just these soups and nothing else for 10 days. If you spend a lot of time urinating and your clothes quickly begin to hang loose, then you definitely need to read more about the Waterfall Diet (see Resources, page 277) so that you can combat this problem on a more long-term basis.

If you have two or more of the following signs you may be suffering from water retention:

 You have worked hard to lose weight using conventional methods, and found that you cannot get below a certain weight even by persevering for months or years

 Pressing a fingernail firmly into your thumb-pad leaves a deep dent that won’t go away after a second or two

 Pressing the tip of your finger into the inside of your shin-bone leaves a dent

 Swelling of legs, feet or ankles

 Your shoe size seems to increase as you get older

 Rings sometimes seem not to fit any more

 You seem to have a major swelling problem in hot weather

 Your tummy is often tight and swollen

 Breast tenderness (in women)

 Premenstrual weight gain (in women)

 Your weight fluctuates by several pounds within the space of only 24 hours