Fat Camps

How America's oldest fat camp — and the inspiration for Disney’s "Heavyweights" — became the symbol of a health intervention that enjoys worldwide popularity despite no evidence that it improves anyone's health.

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Links!
• The Epic Family Feud Behind an Iconic American Weight-Loss Camp for Kids (bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-26/famous-…)
• Two teenagers placed in foster care after weight loss plan fails (theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/10/two-teenag…)
• Calls to set up fat camps for obese children in Scotland (scotsman.com/news/politics/calls-set-fat-camps…)
• Childhood obesity: are new treatment centres the solution? (bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2910)Weight-loss Camps and Their Effect on Childhood Obesity (proquest.com/openview/9e79ebda7a6fc6341f3d9d9b…)
• Psychosocial outcomes in a weight loss camp for overweight youth (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696553)
• Inside Britain’s First Ever Residential “Fat Camp” (youtube.com/watch?v=O9dttB3uXkU&t=137s)
• Working at Camp Shane: Employee Reviews (indeed.com/cmp/Camp-Shane/reviews)
• Missing campers, falsified documents and other issues revealed in CT weight-loss camp investigation (newstimes.com/local/article/Missing-campers-fa…)
• Kids Weight Loss Camp That Closed Has History of Violations (usnews.com/news/best-states/connecticut/articl…)
• Weighty Problems by Laura Backstrom (rutgersuniversitypress.org/weighty-problems/97…)
• The Actually Terrible Things that Happen at Fat Camp (greatist.com/live/the-truth-about-weight-loss-…)
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