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by Diane E. Weiman, A.C.E. CERTIFIED Diane Weiman (A.C.E certified) is an exercise specialist for Upper Chesapeake Bariatric Surgery at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Dear friends, colleagues, and readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times: By now you may be familiar with the controversy that was recently unleashed following the release of the new