• BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Liver disease can do this too. Alcoholics will often get this kind of belly. Any other disorder that fills abdomen with fluid can do it too, though I think that’d generally be an emergency situation.

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        11 days ago

        No, beer belly is just developing extra layers of fat like normal because drinking beer is like eating bread, it’s full of carbs.

        This is more like a “his abdomen filled with fluid it wasn’t supposed to very rapidly because of organ failure or something”; but that’s not what “beer belly” refers to

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          11 days ago

          Tbh I’ve thought it may also can refer to the sudden bloating you get from beer.

          And with how prevalent NCGS seems to be according to current research, I wouldn’t be surprised.

          My belly went from looking kinda like that to showing a bit of muscle definition when I went off gluten and dairy. And now with accidental gluten exposure, I swell up like a balloon.