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Why exercising with others is good for you. ... Women spend more time in group fitness classes than men do. Why working out with others is good for you. ... Strava’s report finds that 35% of ...
Several penal reforms have been carried out year after year, [27] since the country's redemocratization (1985), with the objective of promoting the decriminalization and reintegration of prisoners into society, [28] however, in part due to the seriousness of Brazil's social problems and the low effectiveness of the justice system, [29] only the ...
The country's richest 1% of the population (less than 2 million Brazilians) have 13% of all household income, a similar economic result to that of the poorest 50% (about 80 million Brazilians). This inequality results in poverty levels that are inconsistent with an economy the size of that of Brazil. [1] The country's GDP growth in 2010 was 7.5 ...
Social influences on fitness behavior are the effect that social influences have on whether people start and maintain physical activities. Physical fitness is maintained by a range of physical activities. Physical activity is defined by the World Health Organization as "any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy ...
After decades of delay and pressure, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will henceforth use “favelas and urban communities” to categorize thousands of poor, urban neighborhoods, instead of the ...
Obesity in Brazil is a growing health concern. 52.6 percent of men and 44.7 percent of women in Brazil are overweight. 35% of Brazilians are obese in 2018. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The Brazilian government issued nutrition guidelines in 2014 [ 30 ] which subsequently caught the attention of public health experts for its simplicity and their critical ...
Brazil's lower house of Congress approved the basic text of a bill on Thursday that revives a federal cash transfer program to help millions of poor families whose incomes have been hit by the ...
In 2001, Brazil had a relatively high Gini coefficient of 0.59 for income disparity, meaning that the disparity between the incomes of any two randomly selected Brazilians was nearly 1.2 times the average. The World Bank estimates that the top 20% of the richest Brazilians have roughly 33 times the income share of the poorest 20%. [4]