Some people laugh at this statuette, but it was probably made by someone who had seen his and his tribe’s kids die of malnutrition.

No matter what you do, you can’t look like this if you barely make ends meet food-wise. Also, your body won’t produce as much breast milk.

In some tribes of rural Africa, the more body fat you have, the sexier you are.

This statuette is a powerful symbol, and I can see all the pain and tragedy behind it.

you can look like this when you can't meet needs food-wise

it's a metabolic disorder. you eat garbage and your body has no idea what to do with it or is missing nutrition to be able to process the toxic additives due to the cheaper subsidized food at the grocery store. so being poor nowadays means eating processed unhealthy foods, and forget about having access to organic which has far more medicinal plant compounds that expedite healthy everything (and less pesticides... which your body will store those in fat to protect you from them)

this was even obvious when I was a child. has it not gotten more obvious?