Having different perspective in beauty, mothers in Mauritania forced their daughters to eat with equivalent of 30 burgers per day

News24xx.com - Contrary with what most people thought, girls in West Africa will not get a husband if they have a thin body. For the sake of being beautiful in the eyes of men, they are forced to eat as many as 9 thousand calories per day during the 'eating season’. The goal is, to fatten the stomach of the women there. This tradition is called Leblouh in Mauritania, Western Sahara, and southern Morocco.

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Mothers there want their daughters to have a fertile body so they forced their child to eat even though they are already full. This practice applies to girls aged five to 19 years. Mone, an 11-year-old Mauritanian girl, has a normal body mass index for her age. But she considered herself less attractive. "I want to be fat, I don't want to be thin. If I'm fat, I'll be beautiful" she was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.

Tahyeh, her mother has been preparing foods for Mone consume for two months in a tent with the breakfast menu is a liter of sweet camel milk, followed with porridge and cuscus with a total of 3 thousand calories.

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After more than one hour of resting, Mone has to eat lunch with an intake of four thousand calories, and for dinner, she has to eat two thousand calories. Total in a day Mone is forced to eat 9 thousand calories. If you are confused how many foods in 9 thousand calories, well this is equivalent to 30 burger pieces and five times the normal amount recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eat per day for children of her own age.

 

 

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