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How Junk Food is Transforming Brazil

Geoff Riley

21st September 2017

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A stunning video from the New York Times. In Brazil every year there are one million new cases of obesity.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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