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Presenter Reham Saeed has been suspended from the channel after talking about the obese. Screenshot: facebook.com

Reham Saeed, a famous presenter on private Egyptian television, had attacked the obese during her program. Since then, social networks are unleashed against her around the comments she made.

In his highly popular "Sabaya al Khair" program, Reham Saeed said " the big ones are a burden to their family and to the state. They visually pollute the landscape. The fat ones will not find a husband or he will be fat ". The goal of the presenter was to appear as the one that supports the president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi who declared to have noted " a significant gain of weight among the Egyptians ".

The problem is that the attempt to adulate the president turned against Reham Saeed when social networks, considered by the power as the thermometer of the vox populi , were unleashed against it. They accused Riham Saeed of racism and contempt of the lower classes, including women who were more affected by obesity due to poor nutrition and lack of exercise.

Many celebrities attended the parish. Another presenter, Rabia Zayyat, comments, " This woman's words exude racism, ignorance ." Some netizens even killed two birds with one stone by asking Reham Saeed what she thought of this lady by putting the picture of President Sissi's wife. In a few hours the presenter was suspended by the chain and dragged to justice for outrage against a large category of the Egyptian population.

كلام هذه المرأة ينضح عنصرية وجهل وأمراض غير قابلة للعلاج هذا النموذج هو خطر على الإعلام # ريهام_سعيد # عنصرية_مقيتة pic.twitter.com/me2Bxz459l

Rabia Zayyat (@rabiazayyat) August 22, 2019

35 % of overweight Egyptian adults

The Egyptians are the world champions of obesity in adults. According to a study published in 2017 by the highly respectable The New England Journal of Medicine , 35% of Egyptian adults are overweight.

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The national anti-hepatitis C campaign that has so far screened 60 million Egyptians for free was an opportunity to check weight and height. And the results are even more alarming. Only 25% of the people examined had a weight corresponding to their height. The overwhelming majority of others were overweight.