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Independent experts, however, caution against such nationalistic one-upmanship. Already one-quarter of hospital beds are taken up by people suffering from weight-related ailments such as heart attacks, back surgeries and hip and joint replacements, says Luiz Vicente Berti, president of the Brazilian Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Unless preventive action is taken to educate people, he warns, Brazil faces a sick and expensive future. "If we don't teach people how to eat properly and exercise, then in 10 years no one will have the money to pay the hospital bills that will arise," Berti says, adding...
Some 13% of Brazilian adults are obese - 12.4% of men and 13.6% of women - according to the study, which was carried out last year among 54,000 people for Brazil's Health Ministry. Meanwhile, almost half (47.3%) of adult males and 39.5% of females are considered overweight. Those figures are still low compared with industrialized nations like the U.S., where more than a third of all adults are considered obese (a condition defined by the ratio of weight to height). But Malta says the trend is clear and that Brazil is slowly on the same path. In 1975, similar studies...
...obesity figures that caused the most anxiety. Any suggestion that the girl from Ipanema is not necessarily tall and tan and young and lovely, but could possibly be short and pale and fat and ugly, can cause a scandal here. When the New York Times reported in 2005 that Brazilians were getting fatter, the correspondent came under attack in the media as a gay, Brazilian-hating heretic...
...prime operator of one of the most promising new offshore fields in the world. The deal gives Petrobras capital to further develop the field. In return, China will get 100,000 bbl. to 160,000 bbl. a day for more than 20 years. And just before the Brazilian deal, Beijing agreed to lend $15 billion to cash-strapped Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, and an additional $10 billion to Transneft, Russia's biggest pipeline company. The loans will be paid off not in cash but in crude--300,000 bbl. a day from the huge east Siberian oil fields...