Oaxaca Mexico: Cultural issues impact higher rates of malnutrition for women

In addition to the precarious living in the Oaxacan indigenous families, cultural issues that impact women suffer higher rates of malnutrition than men. According to the Ministry of Health of Oaxaca (SSO) for each malnourished child, two girls. Dr. Reynaldo Miguel Zavaleta, head of the Public Health Unit Health Services Oaxaca (SSO), explained that this has to do with the issue of culture rooted among the Oaxacan society to give preference to men over women. “It is very common in Oaxacan families give priority to man by the mere fact of being a man. The girl, who is the one that has to wait at table and eats after eating less food because sitting is already sold out,” he lamented. Read Article