Sobo - The Sweetness of Fat (3)

In rural Jamaica, keeping slim has antisocial connotations, because people sharing money and food, and they feed each other, especially kin. Thin individuals are neither sick nor poor. Rural Jamaicans’ negative ideas about thinness are linked with their ideas about health. And the ideal body is plump with vital fluids, and maintaining the flow of substances through the body is essential for good health. They value large size, and they build the body by eating. Socially dominant individual who are enmeshed in sound relationships are usually large. Fatness at its best is associated with moistness, fertility, and kindness as well as with happiness, vitality, and bodily health in general. In this article, it also said that not all that gets ingested is transformed into specific components like sinews or blood, and some things are not utilized in the body’s structure at all. Plumpness is important for good health in Jamaica. Few rural Jamaicans want to reduce, so diet foods and beverages are getting more popular. Jamaican kinship ideally involves a sense of interdependence and obligation, which ensues from shared bodily substance. Thin people have little bodily substance to spare. Thin body can cause embarrassment and shame because this means a person can be cast as infertile and antisocial. Sexual fluid, like fatness itself, is good, but here again too much can be harmful and balance must be maintained. A buildup of unreleased semen or sweet water can cause teenager bumps or pimples as excess sexual fluid tries to work its way out through the pores. Bodily equilibrium is essential, so sexual fluids must be discharged now and again. Meanings attribute d to personal appearances are context-specific, and circumstances such as personal vendettas affect which meanings get linked with whose bodies. Finally, this article describes a larger study of Jamaican health traditions and their uses, ideas and information.