Morbid obesity consideted to be healthy now.

[Theodore]

Morbid obesity considered to be healthy now.

[Zaroku]

Ten days later, Tijanniya, 14, a sporty student from the town of Atar in the West African country of Mauritania, is eating breakfast with five other girls, ages 7 to 12, in a cramped sandstone hut deep in the Sahara Desert. Her stomach is already bloated from huge quan****** of goat's milk and oily couscous, but the meal is not over. The next course is a pint of pounded millet mixed with water. Tijanniya chokes down the thick gruel — she has no choice. An older woman dressed in pink robes threatens to beat her with a long cane if she refuses. Worse, if she throws up, the woman will make her eat her own vomit. Outside, a strong wind whips sand into strange, phantasmagoric shapes. The girls have been sent to this desolate spot near Atar to endure the practice of leblouh — intensive force-feeding. "The aim is to feed them until their bodies blow up like balloons," says Aminetou Mint Elhacen, 50, the woman wielding the cane.
The ideal of feminine beauty in Mauritania, a country one-and-a-half times the size of Texas and blanketed in desert, is like America's cult of superthinness in reverse. Mauritanian tradition holds that among women, rolling layers of fat are the height of ***iness. The preference originated centuries ago among the Moors, nomadic ******s of Arabic and Berber stock who make up two-thirds of Mauritania's 3.1 million people. To the ancient Moors, a fat wife (much like fat livestock) was a symbol of a man's wealth, proof that he had enough riches to feed her generously while others perished in the drought-prone terrain.

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[4truth]

Sad stuff. Before middle age they'll be dependent on big pharma to keep them "healthy" and at some point may need hip and or knee replacements. Is signing off on this shyt a business decision on some level?

[man down]

This is the world we live in. Down is up and up is down.

[Sweet Pea 5O]

11 women, eh?

Welp, that just changed my whole outlook.

Thanks, Cosmo.

[Lomadeaux]

If you look up the authors, you get no contact information. That's how it is now and its like that for a reason.