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'Cow will make your baby fat': breaking food taboos in west Africa


The Guardian - 01-May-2014

Development and humanitarian organisations need to better understand the cultural beliefs that damage maternal and child health "A pregnant woman should not eat cow. The child will be fat," said one respondent during research carried out on nutritional taboos among the Fulla people in the Upper River region of the Gambia. In comparison to the rest of western Africa, WHO classifies the Gambia's...


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