Vendaval
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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/ (format edit)
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