Did you know that besides choking your arteries, fat can also stop up your digestive system? My mom’s friend had been having stomach troubles for years. He had gotten tons of scans and tests and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Every time he tried to eat he would have terrible pain and finally he couldn’t eat at all without vomiting it back up. He went to the ER because he was afraid that he had food poisoning and was becoming dehydrated. The doctors were like, “No, something’s blocking the food from going down.”
They did exploratory laparoscopy and found that the fat in his midsection was squeezing against his intestines and preventing anything from passing through! Crazy right?? He didn’t seem that overweight, like not even 200 lbs (average Asian-guy height) and didn’t have a big beer belly or anything. Although if he had a belly, maybe things would have been better, because the fat would have been pushing outward instead of in.
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