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The cruel treatment of obese people echoes dark days of HIV, fuelled by the diet-and-exercise fallacy

South Africa

The cruel treatment of obese people echoes dark days of HIV, fuelled by the diet-and-exercise fallacy

By Joan van Dyk for the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism