Leblouh is a tradition practiced Mauritania. Women are forced to sit in rooms and eat for at least 90 days; men in Mauritania admire obese women. They believe they will find a husband if they force fatten themselves.
Leblouh is unhealthy and threatening to the lives of many women in Mauritania.
Young women in Mauritania have two choices. One, they eat until they bulge, or two, they get beaten brutally."My mother started fattening me forcibly when I was 13-years-old. She used to beat me to eat more oiled couscous and fat lamb's meat. Each time I thought my stomach would explode," Selekeha Mint Sidi of Mauritania remembers. This type of tradition puts the young ladies at a risk of many health problems. Vomiting is a daily habit for girls in Mauritania. Their stomach cannot even contain all the food that is being stuffed into them. When you vomit, the acid sticks to your teeth. After a while, your teeth will turn as yellow as a ripe banana and then they will begin to rot away one tooth at a a time. Why do these women need a man so bad? The only thing they will need after this, is a pair of dentures. Mar Jabero Capdeferro, in charge of gender programs for the U.N. Population Fund in Mauritania, states, "Nowadays, the girls are force-fed with chemicals used to fatten animals...they're very fat, in their forties and fifties, they cannot even move, they have hypertension, diabetes, and so on." The chemicals used for fattening animals, obviously should not be used on young girls like this. It is repulsive to think girls are being forced to drink this. If you do these horrendous things to your body, it will strike back. As Capdeferro says, when the women get older they are faced with things like diabetes and hypertension. Diseases like these are fatal. Is finding a soul mate really worth facing death?
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