Today in class team two presented google/youtube videos ("Killing Us Softly 3"; Dove Evolution"; and "Dove Onaslaught") and the srticle ("Brazillion Obesity: The Big Girl from Ipanema" and "Health and Fitness: Snip, Suction, Stretch and Truss").
Brazil is a beach nation, one where people like nothing better than to spend weekends and holidays with a cold one on the sand. But the chances of spotting suntanned beauties in tiny bikinis are getting smaller and smaller, according to a government study released this week. Research shows that the number of Brazilians suffering from obesity is growing. And the trend toward the fuller figure is most prevalent among women. "Obesity among women had stabilized in previous studies, and now there is an expressive increase," says Deborah Malta, the study's coordinator. "That is very worrying."
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 showed that only 2.8% of men and 7.8% of women were obese; just seven years ago, the numbers were 8.8% and 12.7%.
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I liked how you used evidence from the article in your blog. It gives the reader a pin point idea of what you’re exactly talking about. As writers this is what we want to do. When I write I just imagine that I'm a professional writer and say to myself what would a writer say? Then let the pencil do the rest of the work and it always comes out nicely. On this blog I believe you did something similar because it sounded good. Obesity is a major problem in today’s world only evidence will let everyone know the truth. I liked these articles because they made me think twice about beauty.
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