The girl from Ipanema is fleshing out  Forty-two years since The
Girl From Ipanema was composed in a Rio bar, an obesity study
has sparked a furious debate in Brazil about the state of the
nation, and the expanding waistlines on that famous stretch of
sand.  A government study showing that obese Brazilians
outnumber the undernourished touched a nerve in a country where
the debate about poverty has intensified since the election of
the left-wing President, Luiz Inacio da Silva, but where
physical beauty is a matter of fierce pride.  The report stated
that more than 40 per cent of Brazil's adult population is
overweight, with 10 million defined as obese, compared with less
than four million who were deemed to be undernourished. And last
week press reports suggested that today's girl from Ipanema is
as likely to be a chubby-cheeked charmer as the sleek beach babe
immortalised in the song.  Local style gurus rushed to defend
the honour of the cariocas, as the women of Rio de Janeiro are
nicknamed, arguing that fe