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The book is a co-edition of the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnical School of Health, from Fiocruz, and Expressão Popular Publisher. (Aicó Culturas design) - Illustrated panels were designed by Camila Scramin Rigo This new chapter, completed in October 2014, was dedicated to updating events, studies and policy…
SAN DIEGO - Teenagers increasingly become supporters of the electronic cigarette, showed a study presented yesterday by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) at the annual Congress of Academic Societies of this specialty, in California. And it is adopted not only by non-smokers, but by young people who have smoked…
Five pesticides were classified as "probable" or "possible" carcinogens for man by the cancer's agency of the World Health Organization (Iarc). The risks have been evaluated on the basis of studies of agricultural exposure carried out in the USA, Canada and Sweden, as well as in laboratoriesThe…
Image: Veja. The World Health Organization (WHO) published yesterday new recommendations, insisting that sugar may not exceed the mark of 10% of the daily consumption of energy of one person, under the risk of creating serious health problems. The Estado found that the food industry pressured…
Jose Agenor Álvares Silva, Advisor at Fiocruz Brasília, formar Minister of Health and former Director of the National Agency of Sanitary Survaillance (Anvisa). Photo: Anvisa. Health authorities around the world, including Brazil and the United States, are aware that there is a real epidemic of chronic…
Ultraprocessed food is empty in nutrients and rich in salt, sugar, fat and other chemicals. Picture: Danilo Takano / stock.xchng Cakes, packaged soups, breads, cookies, lasagna, pizza, hamburger, soda, refreshments. What do these foods have in common? In addition to being easy to consume, because they…
It's amazing the power of intimidation of the tobacco industry. Not enough commercializing a product that causes chemical dependency and robs on average 12 years of a man's life and 11 years of a woman's life, the makers insist the continuing crime to press the authorities to prevent the application…
Obesity has a weight of US$ 2 trillion for the global economy (or 2.8% of global GDP), who still struggle to recover from the financial crisis of 2008. The cost of this pest represents virtually the same of smoking or of wars and terrorism in the world, and it means…
Victor Martins/Esp. CB/D.A Press - 6/3/08 Zucchini is the food that most presented irregularities Survey released by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) made with a food group (see chart) shows that 25% of them contain irregularities concerning the use of pesticides. Of the 1. 397 samples analysed, in 21%…
