cultural taboos

What Are The Causes Of Harmful Traditional Practices?

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What Are The Causes Of Harmful Traditional Practices? As with all forms of violence against women and girls, harmful traditional practices are caused by gender inequality including unequal power relations between women and men, rigid gender roles, norms and hierarchies, and ascribing women lower status in society. What are types of harmful traditional practices? These

How Food Taboos Affect Health?

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How Food Taboos Affect Health? A lack of adequate protein in the diet, further depleted by food prejudices that forbid eating what is available, can adversely affect the health status of a population, i.e., cause protein-calorie malnutrition in children, maternal depletion, premature aging, and general malnutrition in women. What is an example of food taboos?