In Mauritania, young girls are harshly force-fed a diet of up to 16,000 calories a day—more than four times that of a male bodybuilder—to prepare them for marriage. Here, a woman must be fat by force. if she is not big, she is not beautiful, reports Ganiu Amodu “In Mauritania, young women are often beaten and force-fed to ensure they gain vast amounts of weight in the short period of time spent at the fat farms”. Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign state…
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