Abdominal Pain Is a Pain in the Neck
Your abdominal discomfort may be caused not by what’s happening inside your belly but by what’s happening outside. According to one researcher, there’s such a thing as Tight Pants Syndrome, which is abdominal pain lasting two to three hours after a meal. Its cause? Yup: pants that are too tight. (The researcher says there’s as much as a three-inch difference between waist size and waistband.) Funny, but the same thing happens with men and shirt size. Two-thirds of men purchase shirts with a neck size that’s too small, so they get headaches, changes in vision, and even changes in blood flow to and from the brain.