Paunch

I have been thinking hard about the ungainly (...) paunch that quite a few of us carry. I am not talking about the rubbery slubbery belly, but the rough and tough, taut paunch.

Where does it come from? Fat? But fat gets deposited below the skin. That can not make the paunch so big and taut. It must be something inside the stomach that is pushing out so hard. So what can it be?

An enlarged organ? The stomach? Liver? Kidneys? what?

I think the answer is the intestines. They are continually filled with food. If you eat too much, there would be too much food in your intestines, which would bloat them up. This has to be accompanied with loose muscles.

The large intestine is probably the one that expands the most. Food (...) in the intestine continuously loses its water content. Therefore, if you've got food in there, you'd need to continuously provide it with water or it would go dry and become a hard cake (and you'd get constipated).

So if you have a paunch (tight one) your water requirement should go up.

I think you can lose that paunch if you just make sure that you bowel movement is as fast as your speed of eating, and if your bowels are empty most of the times. that would help shet a few kilos too.