Physical exercise helps combat fluid retention.
Retention is the action and effect of retaining (conserving something, preventing it from moving or leaving, interrupting its normal course). In biology , the notion of retention - coming from the Latin retentĭo - refers to the physiological difficulty in eliminating fluids from the body .
Fluid retention is also known as dropsy or edema. It is not considered an independent disease, but is a symptom of other diseases that can affect the kidneys or heart , among other organs. The accumulation of retained fluid can occur in the belly, ankles, wrists, arms or neck.
Tips to avoid fluid retention
There are many recommendations given to people who have fluid retention problems. However, among the most significant are the following:
- Eat a healthy and balanced diet, where fats and sugars are reduced to a minimum.
- Drink plenty of water daily. Specifically, it is stipulated that it is most advisable to drink between 1.5 and 2 liters each day.
- Control salt consumption at all times, since it plays a fundamental role in what would be the aforementioned retention.
- Include plenty of fruits and vegetables in your diet. In this sense, what experts in the field recommend are five pieces a day.
Other suggestions
Of course, to these tips we add a fundamental one that is healthy in all aspects: exercise frequently . If you do not have much time to do sports, it is recommended that you choose to walk for at least half an hour every day.
In addition to all this, it is important for those who suffer from fluid retention to know that there are different plants , which are taken as an infusion, and which help it to occur. In this sense, we could highlight horsetail, dandelion, hawthorn, cherry tree or chicory.
The retained part of an income is called withholding.
Retention in economics and finance
The notion of withholding is also used in economics and finance to name the retained part of an income, salary, etc. This percentage is usually appropriated by the State under various concepts, such as a tax. The modality is often used to avoid market distortions or to redistribute wealth when a sector takes advantage of a country's comparative advantages. For example: if a sector earns millions of dollars since the current exchange rate allows it to export all of its production, the government can establish a withholding and then allocate said money to other sectors that can take advantage of the exchange rate policy.
In the case of Spain , it is important to establish that many sectors and self-employed professionals have withholdings of up to 21%. However, when they start their activity they have the opportunity to benefit from certain aid and subsidies that will lead them to only 9% during the first thirty months.
Withholdings are not usually well received by the affected sectors. An emblematic case of this circumstance took place in Argentina in 2008 , when rural business organizations blocked routes and carried out a strike for more than four months as they opposed an increase in withholdings on soybean and sunflower exports.