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	Podcast:		Mosaic Science Podcast
	Episode:		Brazil's billion-dollar gym experiment
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:33:29
	Publish Date:		2016-08-08 06:00:00
	Description:		"For almost an hour, the residents of this neighbourhood will stretch, balance, sweat and lunge. It's hard to spot the instructor through the throng, wedged in as she is between the church wall and a parked mini camper van, her disembodied voice counting down the exercises above and around the crowd. Children, parents, grandparents - most of them in lycra shorts and trainers - have gathered today, as they do five days a week, not to pray but to work out." Can a grand vision of 4,000 free public gyms overcome inequality and fight Brazil's health crisis? Catherine de Lange reports. Written by Catherine de Lange, read by Pip Mayo, produced by Barry J Gibb. For more stories and to read the text original, visit mosaicscience.com Subscribe to our podcast: iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mosai…id964928211?mt=2 RSS mosaicscience.libsyn.com/rss If you liked this story, we recommend City cycling: health versus hazard by Lesley Evans Ogden, also available as a podcast.
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