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In rural Jamaica, amassing wealth and keeping slim have antisocial connotations. Kin feed each other, sharing money and food, no one become thin. Rural Jamaican has some negative ideas about thinness; they are linked with their ideas about health of thinness. Notions about health are notions about body ideals, and they have social meaning, The traditional health belief systems that inform understandings of body shape. For rural Jamaicans, the ideal body is plump with vital fluids, and maintaining the flow of substances through the body is essential for good health. Body is common among those who value reciprocity and emphasize the obligation kin have to share with each other. The concept of the body-in-relation tends to view the body like they view the self as autonomous, individual, and independent. Jamaican villages typically consist of people brought together by ancestry, or by proximity to a shop or postal agency. Jamaicans value large size and they build the body by eating. Different foods answered different needs. Blood is the most vital and most meaning invested bodily component. Red wine and meat's juices can be used to build blood. Another type of blood is sinew; it comes from okra, fish eyes, and other pale slimy foods. belly is the most important part of the inner body, blood made in it. Good relationships and good eating go hand in hand, but plumpness depends on more than mere food. Fatness as its best associated with with moistness, fertility, and kindness as well as happiness, vitality, and bodily health in general. Jamaicans call pleasing things sweet. Something sweet is ready to eat or ripe for enjoyment. Another, Thinness and fatness are to each other as the lean, dry, white meat of a chicken is to its fatty, moist, dark parts. Jamaican kinship ideally involves a sense of interdependence and obligation, which from share bodily substance. Mules are no fecund women, they do not reproduce, and so cannot establish any from of community. Jamaicans denigrated for thinness were never extraordinarily. The thin body lacks vital fluids, which can cause embarrassment and shame. Sexual fluids must be discharged now and again, because bodily equilibrium is essential. Dry spine can occur and reverse itself overtime, Many women whose spines are fine take the roots regularly anyhow, swearing by its effects on potency. Women take it too, for general health enhancement. Traditional health beliefs and social moral ideas exposes much of the logic behind body shape and the regimes people attempt to adhere to in order to affect them.

He fat person';s body is richly fertile, and the fat person is judged a nurturant and constructive member of a thriving network of interdependent kin. But Thinness is ultimately linked with death.