Wife Fattening
July 27th, 2009
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A man feeds wedding cake to his overweight bride.
Obesity is so revered among Mauritania’s white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as “life-threatening”.
A generation ago, over a third of women in the country were force-fed as children – Mauritania is one of the few African countries where, on average, girls receive more food than boys.
Mauritania’s ‘wife-fattening’ farm – BBC News; Monday, 26 January 2004
