This is a tangent to the mention of cultural BMI, but I recently came across these: Ritual fattening of Massa men https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329

This is a tangent to the mention of cultural BMI, but I recently came across these: Ritual fattening of Massa men https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32978275_Guru_-fattening_sessions_among_the_Massa https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32978275_Guru_-fatt... Leblouh, the force feeding of girls to fatten them. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-tradition-leblouh-in-africa-force-feeding-girls-for-marriage.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-tradition-leblouh-in...