Swollen/distended veins/blood vessels are not the result of obesity; they are the CAUSE of obesity.
Some people, i.e. the people who tend to gain excess weight, are sensitive to salt. If they eat salt or food containing added salt they naturally get thirsty and so they drink water or some beverage containing water in order to quench their thirst. Unfortunately they are not able later to excrete all the excess salt (sodium) and the excess water that the salt has attracted to itself. Some of that excess salt water has entered their blood vessels and stayed there, and that fluid retention is causing distended veins AND WEIGHT GAIN. This is not what happens with slim people. If slim people eat salt or salty food and if they then become thirsty and drink to allay their thirst this does not make them gain weight. - Why? - Because their veins/blood vessels have strong enough walls to withstand the influx of the salt and water and also their kidneys are working well so the excess salt and water are quickly processed by the kidneys to be excreted in the urine when they urinate.
THAT'S the basic difference between fat and slim people. - Slim people are able to excrete excess salt and the water it attracts to itself; fat people's blood vessels are compromised and so they retain some of the excess salt and water and swell and so gain weight.
It is as simple - and as difficult - as that. - Obesity is on the increase NOT because more people are 'overeating', but because more and more people are becoming sensitive to salt, i.e. more and more people have weakened blood vessels and impaired kidney function. I have a webpage about this problem and these people: - Vulnerable groups
Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver damage and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better! See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection
Sodium in foodsChildren and Obesity
See also FAT RETENTION
advice for pregnant mothers
http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page
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