More than 48 percent of Brazilians are overweight and 15.8 percent are obese, according to a study based on 2011 data that was released Tuesday by the health ministry. The figures testify to a growing problem, since in 2006 overweight people amounted to 42.7 percent of the population while 11.4 percent were obese. The ministry [...]
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Travel and Tourism in Brazil, Key Trends and Opportunities to 2016: Hosting of FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games to Promote Tourism Growth
The inform provides top-level marketplace analysis, data and insights, including: Historic and predict marketplace sizes casing the whole Brazilian go industry Detailed review of traveller spending patterns in Brazil Descriptions and marketplace outlooks for assorted sectors in the Brazilian traveller industry, such as transportation, place to stay and go intermediaries Detailed marketplace categorization opposite any [...]
Road for Brazilian Star Most Likely Leads to Barcelona
Such is the media swarm around the budding player they call the new Pelé that it is hard to imagine how Neymar found the privacy to father a child. After the mother, unnamed because she was only 17, revealed the news, Neymar released it on his official Web site. He said the impending fatherhood had [...]
How to build business bonds with Brazil
In the coming days the media spotlight will shine brightly upon the March 29 BRICS summit in New Delhi, where business leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will meet to discuss issues in global trade. Given such international attention, it’s worthwhile to reflect on the progress made by these emerging countries, and look [...]
São Paulo: the 4th gay destination in the world
A survey conducted by the specialized site GayCities.com, in partnership with the airline American Airlines, during 2011, placed the city of São Paulo as the fourth best city for gays to live and visit. The site writes about the city starting with the famous parade: “It would be unfair to say that São Paul has [...]
Extreme makeover: How a community transformed their hillside slum
From: Kaboom.org We say, “It starts with a playground,” but really “it” can start with any community project that unites a neighborhood and brings more joy and color to people’s lives. At right is the central square of Santa Marta, a community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Or at least, that’s what Santa Marta used to [...]
Udemy Free Course: Brazil for Beginners
Brazil emerges on the world stage by MARSHALL C. EAKIN Long described as the “country of the future”, Brazil has arrived. The fifth largest country in the world in land mass and population, the third largest democracy, and the sixth economy on the planet, Brazil has emerged as a power in the early twenty-first century. [...]
Brazil’s Leading Arts Financing Group Shares the Wealth
Standing at the window of his office here one afternoon late last year, Mr. Miranda pointed to one of his group’s most ambitious initiatives. In the courtyard below, the avant-garde French troupe Théâtre du Soleil, based in Paris and led by Ariane Mnouchkine, was erecting a giant tent where it would begin a tour of [...]
Lula Announces Return to Political Activity in Brazil
Brasilia, Mar 28 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) thanked the support he received during the treatment against a tumor in the larynx and announced his return to politics more mature and quiet. In a video that reveals the confirmation of the disappearance of the tumor, after going through several [...]
Comfort Food Is Brazilian Food
Comfort food to many means meat and potatoes or something that makes you feel warm and fuzzy (goulash is another example). However, to me that feeling comes from eating Brazilian food. But when I mention the country, I don’t mean the meat-rich dishes made famous here in the United States via the many churrascarias that [...]
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