I was wondering how people get beer belly just by frequent drinking. Is it just body fat? Are your organs getting larger or something? Is beer actually making your stomach large and round or are you just gaining weight?
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It’s a combination of two factors, firstly you are building up fat around your liver as a by product of the liver digesting alcohol for calories. This in general creates the bloated appearance.
BUT it’s not the “normal thing” for your body to create large fat stores *inside* your organ-area, fat is usually out by the skin.
So as your organ area swells with fat it starts to push outwards against the muscles and skin which is where the classic “beer belly” comes from – that beach-ball of tight skin stretched over muscles, filled with fat. *That’s* the reason why beer bellies aren’t just soft and chubby – they are so round and hard as well.
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