It forces a rethink to learn there are people living with HIV and trying hard to lose weight. The imagery from the early decades of the AIDS epidemic, its victims looking evermore gaunt, is hard to shake. But at the AP Alicia Chang has on the wire this morning a piece that reads sensibly and cites CDC and other health authorities who lately are worrying about the pounds that many who are HIV-positive are packing on. In the US at least, those among us who are HIV+ are more or less like the rest when they step on the scale. It says here that nearly two thirds are overweight — and carry the usual associated risks of diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular perils.
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