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How do you get a overweight wheelchair bound handicapped person to lose weight?
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Diet: Diet and some upper body exercises. If they are too heavy and not sucessfull with above measures i will consider biriatric surgery depending on their comorbid conditions.
Answered 9/10/2013
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