Porto Alegre

had the highest compliant rate (54.1%); whereas eat more servings of fruits and vegetables per day had the lowest compliant rate (23.0%)(23). In 2012 a comparative cross-sectional study was conducted with DM1 and DM2 patients at the Hospital de Porto Alegre, portuges among two Hundred twenty five patients showed that, larger percentage of patients with DM2 being classified as poorly active 33 (30.7%) versus 12 (10.3%) and a lower percentage being classified as highly active 9 (8.7%) versus 29…

Beautiful old colonial buildings near the water, endless beaches, and magnificent lighthouses are just some of the charms of Laguna, Brazil. Laguna is perhaps most famous for the symbiotic relationship between local fishermen and a pod of dolphins which frequents the waters near Tesoura Beach. As the dolphins chase fish toward the shore, fishermen throw out their nets to catch the incoming fish. The wild dolphins snap up those which escape the nets and then head back out towards deeper waters.…

Error is inevitable in sports. False starts, missed open shots, dropped passes, bad calls: error today greatly intertwines with sports that the two are rarely seen separated. But error does not only exist in the sport itself: it reaches a larger audience, as its effects can extend across a global scale. The Olympics has long called for “a halt to all conflicts … [and to] strive towards a more peaceful world” (The Modern Olympic Games), but multifaceted issues soon spoiled its biennial message.…

Politics in Brazil, that the belief that governments and administrations wanting to prove their “competence can rarely ‘afford’ to allow important decisions to be made through slow and inefficient participatory forums” is misguided. Abers cited Porto Alegre, Brazil as an example where the government expanded the process and increased “its control over the governing process.” In the Committee of the Whole case, the goal of the meeting, at its core, was to have a conversation about whether or…

Brazil is the largest country in South America and one of the most populated countries in the world, with a population of more then 200 million people in 2015 (UNDP, 2016). Brazil’s economy is amongst the top ten in the world, largely due to its agricultural and mining sectors. Coffee, soybeans, iron ore are among the many exports of Brazil; in 2015 Brazil exported 189 billion dollars. Brazil’s government is a presidential republic and contains twenty-six states. Dilma Rousseff was recently…

Through 1964 to 1985 the world was in a clear divide between leaning towards communistic Russia and the democratic capitalistic United States. During this time many governments had fallen into turmoil due to the events from World War II. The world was scared that any international body could cause such disaster again. At the end of the war you war soon left with two options communist or not. With the United States and Russia emerging as the two largest international powers, each one had very…