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Vendaval -> "Mauritania struggles with love of fat women" (4/27/2007 3:19:25 PM)
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"Mauritania struggles with love of fat women"
"Government trying to change desert culture that force-feeds girls"
Updated: 4:05 p.m. PT April 16, 2007
" NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mey Mint struggles to carry her weight up the flight of stairs, her thighs shaking with each step. It will take several minutes for the 50-year-old to catch her breath, air hissing painfully in and out of her chest.
Her rippling flesh is not the result of careless overeating, though, but rather of a tradition.
In Mauritania, to make a girl big and plump, ‘gavage’ — a borrowed French word from the practice of fattening of geese for foie gras — starts early. Obesity has long been the ideal of beauty, signaling a family’s wealth in a land repeatedly wracked by drought. "
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18141550/
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