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How big business got Brazil hooked on junk food

They are contributing to health problems and foiling laws to remedy dietary impact of processed food

Published Sun, Sep 17, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    Fortaleza, Brazil

    CELENE da Silva, 29, is one of thousands of door-to-door vendors for Nestlé, helping the world's largest packaged food conglomerate expand its reach into a quarter-million households in Brazil's farthest-flung corners.

    As she dropped off variety packs of Chandelle pudding, Kit-Kats and Mucilon infant cereal, there was something striking about her customers: Many were visibly overweight, even small children.

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