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Abdominal obesity
Obese diabetics at risk of kidney disease
CAPE TOWN: Are you suffering from Type 1 diabetes? You better watch that weight around your waist. Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, have found that adults with Type 1 diabetes who are obese, especially those who carry excess weight around the waist, are at an increased risk of developing kidney disease.
More South African adults now die from obesity than from poverty
The state is unleashing a major new offensive in the war on fat as perceptions that slim people are associated with HIV and AIDS makes the battle against obesity even harder.
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