Fashion for obesity: 10 countries that respect overweight
While nutritionists sound the alarm and scare them with obesity statistics, and psychologists blame glossy magazines, actresses and models for promoting thinness, there are countries in the world where excess weight is synonymous with happiness. American researchers have found that residents of Tahiti, South Africa, Jamaica and six other countries in their homeland are considered beautiful and successful only if they have magnificent forms.
About 25% of the population of this island state is obese. However, such statistics spoil the lives of doctors only, and not the Jamaicans themselves. Local residents associate slenderness with health and income problems, depression and other misfortunes, and being overweight suggests otherwise. Only a plump woman with lush hips, buttocks, a wide waist and large breasts can be attractive to a man. After all, she is definitely healthy and happy!
The Republic of Fiji is one of those places on earth where 90x60x90 beauty standards do not rule the show. The more a woman has a waist, the more attractive she is. A wide waist says a lot, firstly, that the hostess does not suffer from hunger, and since she has a healthy appetite and no less appetizing forms, it means that she has wealth. Secondly, it is a sign of health and, thirdly, fertility. Only such a woman can give a man an heir, with a thin one there is nothing to take.
It is here that the largest number of overweight people live. The love for large volumes grows from ancient traditions. Like the people of Fiji, the subjects of the kingdom believe that slimness is a sign of illness and the poor. But if earlier in the Pacific state they gained weight with the help of completely healthy products, then in recent decades everything has changed. While economists rejoice at the growth in the well-being of the population, doctors blame the same rise in wealth for the fact that more than 50% of the population suffer from obesity. With the advent of imported high-calorie foods high in fat and sugar, people are gaining weight by leaps and bounds and do not seek to lose weight, because they believe that this is happiness.
The wife of the President of South Africa
In South Africa, thinness is associated not with any diseases, but with a very specific problem – a massive HIV epidemic. Locals equate weight loss with signs of illness and therefore do not see anything wrong with extra pounds and large volumes. Meanwhile, staff at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi concluded that the continent would soon be hit by a wave of obesity. And first of all it concerns the poor citizens. The cravings for cheap food and the desire to eat too much so as not to look sick led to the fact that one in three study participants was found to be overweight.
Diana Karazon – Arab pop singer, TV presenter and actress
In this state, skinny models have no place, a fat woman is a sign of wealth at home, and it has always been so. If a man is successful, then his wife simply cannot be thin. What oriental woman would dare to lose weight and ruin her husband’s reputation? However, the wealth of wealth, and the problem of obesity in Kuwait is very acute: 74,2% of the population aged 15 years and older is already overweight.
Savannah Sanitoa of American Samoa runs the 100m at the 12th World Athletics Championships
The people of the Samoan island nation in the South Pacific are free from Western beauty standards and still appreciate large bodies. Here completeness is compared to a gift. The more complete you are, the more nature rewarded you, the more generous and richer your race will be, and the more fertile the earth. But it’s not just beliefs. Anthropologists believe that the reason for the completeness lies much deeper. Samoans have suffered from food shortages for centuries, and their bodies are simply genetically “programmed” to store fat in case of hunger.
Dancer in Eastern Polynesia, Tahiti
The ancient custom of ha’apori, which means fattening, still reigns here. A woman who is ready to marry must be of good quality and have rounded shapes, this is what a future mother looks like. If the girl is thin, she will not see her fiancé. To achieve attractive volumes, women-to-be eat a high-carb diet and drink coconut milk after every meal.
Shiva Pio Cook from Nauru screams as he lifts the bar at a competition in Melbourne
Another “thick” corner of the world. Here, as in Tahiti, large women and equally large men are revered. Women need fat reserves for motherhood, and men for strength. The bigger you are, the more attractive you are to the opposite sex. But if several centuries ago the feeding habits were at least not useful, but not so terrible, today the World Health Organization recognizes that the people of Nauru are in danger. About 30% of residents suffer from diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, and all because of the obesity that they have acquired by eating cheap imported high-calorie foods.
Karla Bruni with the first lady of Mauritania Tekber Mint Melanin Ould Ahmet
Due to the arid climate and poorly developed agriculture, fullness in Mauritania has come to symbolize a sign of wealth and prosperity. A plump woman is a true standard of beauty. But achieving this ideal is not easy. Not all Mauritanians are inclined to be overweight. To become the woman of their dreams, future brides have to make sacrifices – every day to absorb a huge amount of fat camel milk and drink drugs that stimulate appetite.
In Brazil, women naturally have lush hips, and women not only do not hide them, but, on the contrary, wear swimsuits almost all year round. By the way, here women often even decide on plastic surgery: Brazilian women tend to enlarge their breasts (which, due to natural features, are often much smaller than the hips), or they insert implants into the buttocks to make them more rounded and appetizing. In terms of the number of operations carried out per year, Brazil is second only to the United States.