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Slim might be in elsewhere but for Ethiopia's Bodi or Me'en people, bigger is always better. The tribe, which lives in a remote corner of Ethiopia's Omo Valley, is home to an unusual ritual which sees young men gorge on cow's blood and milk in a bid to be crowned the fattest man.
Six months after starting the regime, the men emerge to show off their newly engorged physiques and for a winner to be chosen. The champion fat man is then feted as a hero for the rest of his life.
Competition: On the day of the Ka'el ceremony, the tribe's fat men walk for hours around a sacred tree, watched by other men and helped out by the women''
The feat begins six months before the Ka'el ceremony when participants retire to their huts where they stay, while the women bring them food
Too much! A Bodi man finds that his morning bowl of blood and milk is a little too much and is ill outside his hut - watched by a baffled-looking herd of cows''
HAHAHHAHAAA'' MBWA KAONA NYAMA HAPO YANI AKIMRUKIA AINYOFOE NDIO MWISHO NA MWANZO WA HABARI NA BAADA YA HABARI ''YANI
Each competitor is nominated by his family who then spend the next six months helping him to fatten up on a diet of cow's blood and milk''
Six months after starting the regime, the men emerge to show off their newly engorged physiques and for a winner to be chosen. The champion fat man is then feted as a hero for the rest of his life.
Competition: On the day of the Ka'el ceremony, the tribe's fat men walk for hours around a sacred tree, watched by other men and helped out by the women''
The feat begins six months before the Ka'el ceremony when participants retire to their huts where they stay, while the women bring them food
Too much! A Bodi man finds that his morning bowl of blood and milk is a little too much and is ill outside his hut - watched by a baffled-looking herd of cows''
HAHAHHAHAAA'' MBWA KAONA NYAMA HAPO YANI AKIMRUKIA AINYOFOE NDIO MWISHO NA MWANZO WA HABARI NA BAADA YA HABARI ''YANI
Each competitor is nominated by his family who then spend the next six months helping him to fatten up on a diet of cow's blood and milk''
