Extreme Drought in Western Pará Pushes Family Farmers Into Agroforestry goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
JURUTI, Pará As we approach the airport in Santarém, Pará, astonishment echoes loudly throughout the plane as its passengers see the extent of the drought below. Through the tiny window, we see the immense waters recede, leaving sandbanks exposed in the landscape. Beneath a sky that has not brought rain in months and walking […]
Doctors Have Science, We Have Wisdom, Says Midwife Defending Her Work Inside the Amazon brazzil.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brazzil.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The community of Deus é Pai (“God is our Father”) sits by the Tefé River in Brazil’s Amazonas state. As children play in a creek on a sunny afternoon, a woman speaks up for the traditional midwives of the Amazon Rainforest. She leaves a question in the air of this remote riverside village. “I dare […]
Interdisciplinary Approach Effectively Treats Obesity by Angela Mohan on May 21, 2021 at 10:45 AM
Interdisciplinary clinical measures like cognitive and behavioral therapy may produce more significant outcomes for obese people, reducing weight and also symptoms of depression.
This is the main conclusion of a study conducted in Brazil by the Obesity Research Group at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Santos, São Paulo state, and published in the journal
Frontiers in Nutrition.
Considered one of the world s major public health problems, obesity has more than doubled in Brazil in 17 years and is now increasingly frequent among children and young adults. Between 2002 and 2019, the proportion of obese adults rose from 12.2% to 26.8%. Among women, it reached 29.5% (versus 21.8% among men).