What do we define as beauty, pretty face, slim figure, fair skin.
But there is such a place, they are fat for beauty, in order to become the beauty of people's mouths, they eat crazy, and even use drugs to gain weight, even if the loss of health or even death can not stop their pace, this country is Mauritania.
The Islamic Republic of Mauritania is located in northwestern Africa and has a land area of 1,030,700 square kilometers. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara and Algeria to the north, Mali to the southeast and Senegal to the south.
Mauritania is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a population of 4.8 million and a total GDP of only $7.9 billion, ranking only 40th in poor Africa, the lowest in the world.
The "food crisis" is the biggest problem in Maoritania, most people are still struggling to feed themselves, and strangely enough, there are especially many fat people here, and they are basically women.
According to statistics, in Mauritania, 1 in 5 women are overweight, and more than half of the women are overweight.
In the streets and alleys of Mauritania, you can always see bloated, slow-paced women, which is a huge contrast with this extremely poor country.
Because this is a country where fat is beautiful, in the Maoritanian concept of marriage, the fatter the woman, the more beautiful, very sought-after, is the object of people's pursuit, therefore, becoming "fat" is the most important thing for these women.
In order to achieve their ideal weight, they will try their best to gain weight for themselves, through eating more meals to achieve the goal, the family will support her, rather than save money and use, but also to raise a fat daughter.
But the effect of fattening in this way is not good, and the digestion ability of adults is very strong, plus it is very poor here, even if you eat a lot of things, you are only a little fat, too far from the ideal goal.
So the Mauritanians began to "roll in", they found that children are more likely to become fat, and it is difficult to lose, so the age of fattening began to become smaller and smaller.
The terrible gastric filling phenomenon has appeared!
Parents with daughters in the family have been prepared early, when they are about ten years old, they will prepare a months-long "holiday" every year, during this holiday, parents will lock their daughters in the room, let their daughters eat crazy, have been eating non-stop, eat until stomach pain, constipation, nausea and vomiting can not stop, after eating this part of the food, immediately take another portion, and after eating let the daughter sleep, in order to reduce consumption.
Like the geese in the farm, they will be force fed whether they are hungry or not, to ensure that there is no gap in the stomach.
But this kind of forced feeding is too terrible for people, not to mention some children, each daughter is enduring pain, enduring nausea, numbness eating food that never ends, and there is always "encouragement" from parents around.
"Eat quickly, when your mother is as old as you, she is a few laps fatter than you, you are too far behind, don't eat fat, how to find a satisfactory object in the future"
There are more and more "inner volumes" here, and children are getting younger and younger to "feed", and the lowest starts at the age of 4.
And these children are still relatively better, after all, the family can still take out food, but for many poor people, it has always been a full meal and a hungry meal, where is the food to feed the daughter?
So, a more efficient and direct way has emerged – using drugs.
They will choose drugs that reduce metabolism and increase weight, and these drugs themselves have huge side effects, normally they are forced to eat, and the dose is strictly controlled.
But here it is the complete opposite, these poor parents will give their children an overdose of these drugs, and they are very satisfied with the results, only a little money, in a short period of time to gain weight, simply perfect.
The harm to the drug is not within their consideration, every girl who takes the drug will leave sequelae in the body, and a small number of people will die on the spot because of the drug overdose, but this did not make this situation less, but liked this cheap and efficient way.
The crazy behavior of mauritanians makes these girls quickly become obese, and they will appear particularly mature in the role of high-calorie foods and drugs, many of whom marry and have children before the age of 15, and they will be affected by this concept and will treat their children the same.
Once the mainland of the Tang Dynasty is also fat for beauty, looks a little similar, but in fact completely different, the so-called Tang Dynasty to fat for beauty, refers to slightly fat, slightly fleshy, making people look more plump and rich.
And Mauritania's fat beauty is completely different, they pay attention to the fatter the better, the more bloated the more beautiful, the more fat the more beautiful, and the kind of fat and inactive women are the big beautiful women they say are once in a thousand years.
How did this unusual aesthetic come about?
In fact, it can be summed up in one word - poor
As we all know, Africa has been the representative of poverty and backwardness since ancient times, and Mauritania is at the bottom in Africa, so it is conceivable.
Many countries have had their peaks, in today's parlance, at least the ancestors have been wide, but Mauritania is different, a poor word runs through the entire history of Mauritania.
Mauritania's history is more tragic, before 1000 AD, it was the main road from North Africa to sub-Saharan Africa, and its unique geographical location made it a strategic place, and the war never stopped.
In the early 15th century, the Portuguese invaded, more terrible nightmares began, and the inhumane slave trade began, and they built strongholds in Maoritania to trade slaves.
Later, the Spaniards, the Dutch, the British, and the French successively became the owners of the land.
Independence was not achieved until 1960, but after independence Mauritania was repeatedly plunged into war and civil strife, and the country was in chaos, and the situation in the country gradually stabilized after 2007.
From 1000 AD to 2007, for thousands of years, the country has been plagued by war, hunger, disease, etc., people have not lived a few days of good life, so in such a long period of chaos, mauritanians' greatest pursuit is to be able to eat and drink, and obesity is the symbol of eating and happiness, and this concept is gradually passed down.
The women of Mauritania are pitiful, they have fallen victim to the times, and if they can focus their energy and money on the development of national construction, rather than the so-called "feeding", I believe they will be much happier.
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