Health/Medical

Shocking Health Crisis for Brazil’s Yanomami

Desperately malnourished Yanomami children, Surucucus region. © URIHI – Associação Yanomami A devastating new report has revealed the full extent of the crisis in the Yanomami territory caused by a massive invasion of illegal goldminers: – Yanomami children are dying from malnutrition at a rate 191 times greater than Brazil’s average. – Deaths of Yanomami children […]

Remember the Vaccine Scandal in Maryland?

Let’s imagine a hypothetical scenario. What if there was a time when the general population was being relentlessly coerced into taking a particular drug? How would you know what to do? Where would you turn for the necessary context? Surely you wouldn’t just take the shot without doing your homework… right? That would be irrational. […]
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Millions Suffer as Junk Food Industry Rakes in Profit

Increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. That is the finding of a new peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The findings are significant not only for Brazil but also for high income countries such as the U S, Canada, the […]

The Attack on Nature Is Putting Humanity at Risk

Heloisa Hariadne (Brazil), Com uma gota já se faz oceano pra sede se matar em mergulho (‘A drop of water becomes an ocean to quench a diver’s thirst’), 2021. In the last week of October, João Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil and the global peasants’ organisation La Via […]
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