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Is Sending A Fat Teenager Away From Home A Good Idea?

Wellspring Academy of the Carolinas costs $6,250 a month, which means staying there a year costs more than a year at Harvard, according to the Washington Post. Wellspring is a "highly structured therapeutic boarding school for rapid weight loss and intensive behavior therapy." It's fat camp meets boarding school, and kids there do lose weight: Terry Henry enrolled in September 2004 when he was 15. At the time, he weighed 558 pounds. He left 15 months later weighing 253 pounds and today weighs about 278 pounds. But not all stories are success stories. And author Stephanie Klein has a new book, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, in which she recalls the awful reality of being an overweight teen. The most surprising thing about fat camp, Klein tells Newsweek, was that "They weighed us on meat scales. The kids who were too heavy got weighed on a truck scale at the truck stop." It was, in a word, "Humiliating." More »

4:00 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Dodai
12,048 views, 200 comments

Latest by n/a: What good is it going to do these kids if they get home and their parents let them go right back to whatever unhealthy lifestyle was exacerbating their problem in the first place? Sure, something might work at camp, but more »