While in China touring the Hamun province, we stopped by a place where you could take a look at the shape of your blood vessels. The shape of the blood vessels are very important indications of your current health and also the risk of future disease. A curly and twisted shaped blood vessels would indicate unhealthy veins, possibly high cholesterol and also carries the risk of accumulating fat solids much faster (due to the twists and turns) leading to heart disease and so on. The severity of the curls and twists of the blood vessels relates directly to the severity of the problems aforementioned. The shape of the blood vessels are partly determined by genetics and also by your living and eating habits. Usually younger kids have nice straight blood vessels but they start to degrade as they get older (body's metabolism slows), their eating habits deterioate, and with lack of exercise. Anyhow, we all had a turn to get our blood vessels analyzed and my grandma's had the nicest blood vessels. Purely straight! Mine turned out fairly damn straight and although it was not as good as her's, I was definitely the closest! So with good eating habits and lots of exercise, I may live to a hundred and more!
I thought this was worth its own post :)