I have started to lose weight, but I still have a distended stomach. Is there some reason for this? Can you please help with any suggestions as it is beginning to look unsightly.

Abdominal distension is a noticeable swelling of the belly. Your abdomen can grow larger than normal for a variety of reasons, such as food intolerance, digestive disorder, and gut bacteria ...

obvious of which is that you still haven¹t quite reached your ideal weight. You may find that when you get down to your target weight your stomach has lost it¹s roundness too.

During a routine examination of our department's animal husbandry unit, we found a female Swiss albino mouse with an extremely distended abdomen (Fig. 1). This 6-month-old mouse, which was ...