They added: "When you are on your feet a lot, gravity pulls blood into the veins of your legs, and some of the water in the blood enters the tissues of your legs and feet, causing them to swell.
It started with vanity, as so many health sagas do. I've never had supermodel legs, but in my 30s and 40s, I started noticing thin, squiggly blue and purple veins mostly below my knees and around ...