Body Fat Impacts Your Circulation & Ultimately Your Whole Body’s Health...
Body fat, adipose tissue, is part of you. We all have some stores of body fat. Fat tissue is living tissue that needs a steady supply of blood, oxygen, and nutrients. I am going to explain just a couple of ways that excess body fat is hard on the body’s circulation. Vibrant circulation, to all body cells, is required for vibrant, whole body health.
"If you took all the blood vessels out of an average child and laid them out in one continuous line, the line would stretch over 60,000 miles. An adult's line of blood vessels would be closer to 100,000 miles long." (1) There are three kinds of blood vessels: arteries, veins, and capillaries.
When you gain a pound of fat your body makes seven new miles of blood vessels. Your body must then work harder to pump blood through all of these extra miles of new blood vessels.
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