While the United States may reign supreme as one of the world's fattest countries, epidemiologists warn that the obesity epidemic is growing in developing countries and represents a new public health threat in countries like Brazil. Given a burgeoning middle class, an expanding food industry, and rising sedentarism, Brazil is experiencing an epidemic that has the potential to worsen in the coming years.First, given the strength of the economy and a growing population of consumers--part [...]
The tech scene in Brazil is one of the most exciting in the world, and one of the best and brightest new Brazil tech writers is Anna Heim, a French expat and polygot who covers Latin America for The Next Web. She writes about countries throughout the region with a focus on Brazil, and has written about everything from e-commerce and smartphones to Orkut and lanhouses, as well as following some of Brazil's fastest-growing startups. I caught up with her recently to find out more about he [...]
The United States is the world's largest producer of ethanol fuel since 2005. The U.S. produced 13.2 billion U.S. liquid gallons (50.0 billion liters) of ethanol fuel in 2010, and together with Brazil, both countries accounted for 88% of the world's production in that year. Ethanol fuel is mainly used in the U.S. as an oxygenate to gasoline in the form of low-level blends up to 10 percent, and to a lesser extent, as E85 fuel for flex-fuel vehicles. Most ethanol fuel in the U.S. is prod [...]
President Obama met with President Obama met with President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil today to discuss the bilateral relationship between the two countries. The United States and Brazil are the two largest economies and democracies in the Western Hemisphere, and share one of the most important trade and economic relationships in the world. U.S. goods and services exports to Brazil totaled $63 billion in 2011 and support approximately 300,000 U.S. jobs. The two leaders also discuss [...]
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