Pratodomundo Food for 10 billion

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The Museum of Tomorrow's new temporary exhibition features the guest speaker for the next edition of "Science at Six and a Half." Carlos Augusto Monteiro, a professor at the University of São Paulo's School of Public Health, will discuss the role of transnational corporations that manufacture ultra-processed foods

Obesity is increasing year after year and has become one of the biggest health problems facing the population. In Brazil, it affects 33 million people. Worldwide, the number is over 672 million, considering only adults. This United Nations data raises a question: what is fueling this global obesity epidemic? To answer this question, the guest of the next edition of Ciências às Seis eia is Dr. Carlos Augusto Monteiro, a professor at the USP School of Public Health. He will address the role of transnational corporations that manufacture ultra-processed foods. The lecture will take place on May 15th, at 6:30 pm, here at our Observatório do Amanhã

Registration is free, and spaces are limited

Pratodomundo Consultant – Food for 10 Billion, the Museum of Tomorrow's new temporary exhibition, Carlos Augusto Monteiro is one of Brazil's leading experts in nutritional epidemiology, a field of study on the relationship between food and health. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, serves on the World Health Organization's nutrition expert panel, and regularly collaborates with several international organizations, including the FAO and the Pan American Health Organization. More recently, he participated in the creation of the Food Guide for the Brazilian Population, produced by the Ministry of Health

Science at Six-Thirty

The Science at Six-Thirty project is a series of lectures by renowned scientists for non-specialist audiences. Created in the 1980s by the Rio de Janeiro Regional Office of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC), it has become an essential program for those who enjoy learning new ideas and perspectives in a wide range of fields. For 2018, Science at Six-Thirty is held in partnership with the Museum of Tomorrow and takes place on the first Wednesday of the month, always at six-thirty

Science at Six-Thirty is organized by SBPC – RJ e SBPC – Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, in partnership with the Museum of Tomorrow and the science dissemination website Science Explains

Free activity open to the general public, upon registration

Event subject to capacity