Just 818,000 of Brazil’s 191 million people are indigenous, according to the most recent census, in 2010. At least 77 groups of uncontacted Indians are ... or metal pots they have traded ...

While India still has the lowest incidences of obesity among so-called Bric nations - Brazil, Russia ... for Chronic Disease Control. But the pot belly, or paunch, hasn't always been seen as ...

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Brazil’s Indian Protection Service, organized in 1911, was supposed to end all that, but the killing continued. The country’s Indian population, once in the millions, has now dwindled to a ...