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Choosing a weight loss camp
Many weight-loss camps are more oriented towards short-term weight loss.

Fat Camps
The negative stories about weight loss camps are becoming a thing of the past as new, scientifically based programs are developed for kids.

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What happens at weight loss camps
A short primer on what happens at weight loss camps.
San Antonio Fattest City
Everything is big in Texas, but that's not always a good thing

For Parents of Overweight Teens

Parenting an Overweight Child - Modeling Healthy Behavior

Stuart is among the approximately 15 percent of children between the ages of 6 and 19 who are overweight or obese -- a 10 percent increase since the 1970s.

The First Boarding School for Overweight Teens

Wellspring Academies of California, formerly Academy of the Sierras in California has shown remarkable results since opening its boarding school for overweight teens in the Fall of 2004. The new North Carolina campus opens Fall 2006. Learn more and see video clips from CNN's Anderson Cooper, Jane Pauley, and others

The Psychological Consequences of Obesity in Children & Teens

For many overweight children and teens, their physical health and well-being is the least of their problems. Much more relevant is the teasing, taunting and poor treatment they receive from other children at school and in the community. And for many, it’s not only how others think of them, but how they think of themselves. A sizable percentage of overweight kids – particularly girls – are clinically depressed as a result of a preoccupation with being overweight.

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Why Is My Child Overweight?
Is it inherited? Is it caused by too many fast-food ads and too many opportunities to be sedentary?
Facts About Our Overweight Kids
A warning from the Surgeon General and the Centers for Disease Control about childhood obesity.
Dallas Texas in the Middle of Epidemic of Childhood Obesity
Dallas is at the top of the list of cities when it comes to overweight teens and children

 

For Overweight Teens

Teens and Dieting: Diets Don’t Make Sense for Teens

Teenagers require a healthful, balanced diet in order to continue to grow. Many studies report that frequent dieting by adolescents not only inhibits growth, but also appears to result in weight gain over the long term. Diets made for adults, such as the South Beach Diet, The Zone Diet, Atkins Diet, and other popular diets may mean you aren't getting the right nutrition that a growing young adult needs.

It Hurts to Be Me

"When I came into treatment, I really didn't want to be here at all -- not just not in therapy; I wanted to be dead. The prospect of being teased for being fat every day of my life just made me shut down emotionally. I went through the motions but my grades were poor and I was just plain numb most of the time. No one really knew how awful it was. Not even me."

Weight Loss Summer Camps
The first comprehensive summer treatment programs for overweight children and young adults. Wellspring’s clinical program has been designed by leading researchers and clinicians to maximize long-term behavioral change, which will result in substantial and permanent weight loss. And it all happens at six incredibly fun summer camps.
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