Comments on: Food News 13 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2006/10/03/food-news-13/ I never touched it, honest! Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2006/10/03/food-news-13/comment-page-1/#comment-3033 Jeremy Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:28:37 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2006/10/03/food-news-13/#comment-3033 I think you are right, that it is water rentention, although I am not too sure how that squares with the advice to keep drinking. Or maybe I am. If the air in the cabin is dry, you will lose more water through breathing, evaporation and stuff. But because of the low pressure, tissues swell, which takes water. So even though you are dehydrating, you retain water. There, a nonsense armchair theory. Someone correct me. I think you are right, that it is water rentention, although I am not too sure how that squares with the advice to keep drinking. Or maybe I am. If the air in the cabin is dry, you will lose more water through breathing, evaporation and stuff. But because of the low pressure, tissues swell, which takes water. So even though you are dehydrating, you retain water.

There, a nonsense armchair theory. Someone correct me.

]]> By: gail lewin http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2006/10/03/food-news-13/comment-page-1/#comment-3029 gail lewin Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:38:04 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2006/10/03/food-news-13/#comment-3029 "Something" physiological might happen during a long flight, because no matter how little or much I have eaten during a trip, my pre and post-flight weight shows a one or one and a half kilo gain. This "evaporates" without effort by the end of the following two or three days. Water retention? “Something” physiological might happen during a long flight, because no matter how little or much I have eaten during a trip, my pre and post-flight weight shows a one or one and a half kilo gain. This “evaporates” without effort by the end of the following two or three days. Water retention?

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