While females worldwide are constantly concerned with their weight, women in Mauritania take care of their looks in order to gain weight.
Women in Mauritania, an African nation, must deal with food insecurity. Since there have frequently been severe food shortages in this area in the past, obesity has come to represent unadulterated beauty.
The definition of beauty is a voluptuous physique that demonstrates enormous wealth and fame. In contrast, a slender body is fundamentally unsightly and can even make it difficult to find a partner.
Therefore, Mauritania women are compelled to go through a highly stringent “fattening” procedure from a very young age, at the peculiar “fattening camps” of this nation, in order to achieve the beauty criteria.
This is where the “fattening” service in Mauritania gains popularity; the cost of the course is roughly USD 155. Of course, the girls will endure physical and psychological suffering in order to reach the proper weight when they must set foot here.
To prevent any attempts by girls to elude capture, the majority of the girls are transferred to fattening camps in the desert. Girls will be asked to follow a diet that raises weight by 8 times the amount of energy normally consumed.
Children from 5, 7 to 9 years old have to eat every day 2kg of cereal mixed with 2 cups of butter with… 20 liters of camel milk. Thus, each day, a baby consumes 16,000 calories, compared to the average person’s diet 2,000-2,500 calories.
The so-called “fattener” women force the girls to drink camel milk, eat several times a day, and instruct the girls to limit physical activity. If a girl refused to comply, they would be tortured or ridiculed.
They’ll make sure the girls never refuse to eat again. They always have a whip that is as big as the “campers'” bodies, which is a nightmare for girls. The “campers” would make the girls consume all of their vomit, not saving a drop, if they puked.
The most typical penalty, according to 25-year-old Mariam Mint Ahmed, a participant at the fattening camp, is having your toes clamped on two sticks. The camp warden will twist the stick, which is really unpleasant, if you don’t eat it all. In order for the body to swell like a hot air balloon, it is necessary to cram.
As a result, the girls are unable to work or engage in any type of exercise throughout the day and must continuously eat.
Elhacen, a camper who receives $155 per person for each three-month fattening process, stated, “It’s all for the children.
Just eat, sleep and rest, like “fairy”!
The Muslim nomads of Arabia, who now make up two-thirds of the population of Mauritania, are known to have invented the idea of obese beauty centuries ago. The Mauritania government attempted to banish the practice in 2003, but subsequent political developments made it more cruel than before.
A 2008 survey by the Mauritania Ministry of Social Affairs found that both voluntary and coerced fattening camps are attended by around 20% of the nation’s women. Of course, eating excessive amounts of food and rapidly gaining weight will have numerous unsettling effects on one’s health.
In Mauritania, women who have been stuffed frequently weigh more than 140 kg. However, such weight puts a horrible pressure on the heart and joints, according to WHO.
In addition, the females occasionally need to take growth hormone medications, such as steroid supplements and farm animal weight-gain medications, to accommodate the feeding procedure.
As a result, there is a sharp increase in the risk of heart attack, kidney failure, diabetes, and bone fractures, which can potentially be fatal. Their bodies are likewise underdeveloped, with very short limbs and a highly well-developed abdomen, face, and chest.
