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The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
Usage examples of "yanomami".
I am amazed that the Yanomami can stay so calm surrounded by giant bugs, snakes, and investigators forever taking their blood pressure, which at last report averaged an amazingly low 95 over 61.
The average blood pressure in the United States is 120 over 80 halfway between the Yanomami and hypertension, which is another word for high blood pressure and starts at 140 over 90.
A fifth of all Americans are hypertensive, but none of the Yanomami are.
This is lucky for the Yanomami because high blood pressure multiplies your chances of having a heart attack, kidney disease, or a stroke.
The Yanomami consume about 87 milligrams of salt a day, which occurs naturally in their food and equals two shakes from a standard saltshaker.
I eat all the salt I want, much more than the Yanomami do, and my blood pressure is slightly below normal.
In the mid-1960s, the American anthropologist James Neel inoculated members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela with a virulent strain of measles.
A small, blonde woman named Florinda Donner, for example, went to live recently with the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon.
The oldest of the Yanomami, a dignified man with graying hair, replied.
He was glad they had met up with the Yanomami, but at the same time he felt as if his privacy had been invaded.
Hannah was raised in the Brazilian rain forest in a Yanomami hunting camp.
I suspect that they loved the rain forest and the Yanomami even more than they loved God.
He thought the Yanomami deserved every cent they could get for their knowledge of the medicinal value of plants, and he hated representing the orbiters, who wanted to pay as little as possible.