The New York Times > International > Americas > Rio de Janeiro Journal: Beaches for the Svelte, Where the Calories Are Showing
By LARRY ROHTER
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 6 - Fat Brazilians? In a body-conscious society whose gifts to global culture include the girl from Ipanema, the tanga bikini and Gisele Bündchen and other supermodels, the idea seems heretical. Yet a controversial government study released late last month confirms it: Brazil is experiencing an epidemic of obesity
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"Obesity epidemic" in Brazil - The Times Editor's Note
Editors' Note: January 28, 2005, Friday
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/health/article-page.html?res=9B03E5DD1738F930A25752C0A9639C8B63
An International Journal article from Rio de Janeiro on Jan. 13 described a Brazilian government study's finding that the country faced an obesity epidemic, with 40 percent of the adult population overweight. The article talked about the anomaly of obesity in a body-conscious society known to the world for beaches, bikinis and the girl from Ipanema.
Two photographs with the article showed overweight people at Brazilian beaches. The photographer, a freelance who worked independently from the writer, believed that all the people he photographed were Brazilians. But three women in one picture have now told the newspaper O Globo ( http://oglobo.globo.com/jornal/rio/164043723.asp ) that they were visitors from Europe. While the article itself has not been questioned, The Times regrets that the nationalities of the women in the photo were not verified.
Brazil Newspaper Slams NY Times Over Obesity Story
Thu Jan 27, 2005 05:11 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=13&u=/nm/20050127/wl_nm/brazil_nytimes_fat_dc
"Obesity epidemic" in Brazil - The Times Editor's Note
Editors' Note: January 28, 2005, Friday
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/health/article-page.html?res=9B03E5DD1738F930A25752C0A9639C8B63
An International Journal article from Rio de Janeiro on Jan. 13 described a Brazilian government study's finding that the country faced an obesity epidemic, with 40 percent of the adult population overweight. The article talked about the anomaly of obesity in a body-conscious society known to the world for beaches, bikinis and the girl from Ipanema.
Two photographs with the article showed overweight people at Brazilian beaches. The photographer, a freelance who worked independently from the writer, believed that all the people he photographed were Brazilians. But three women in one picture have now told the newspaper O Globo ( http://oglobo.globo.com/jornal/rio/164043723.asp ) that they were visitors from Europe. While the article itself has not been questioned, The Times regrets that the nationalities of the women in the photo were not verified.
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Brazil Newspaper Slams NY Times Over Obesity Story
Thu Jan 27, 2005 05:11 PM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=13&u=/nm/20050127/wl_nm/brazil_nytimes_fat_dc
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