Fat Camps - Resources for Parents of Overweight Children
Anonymous, "I was a fat kid, this is my story," posted at http://www.catay.com/fatkid/family.asp
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Blumenthal, Deborah. "Where Campers Lose Weight and Gain Confidence." The New York Times, April 11, 1987.
Buzbee, Ellen. "Future in the Scale." The New York Times, March 12, 1967.
Dalton, Sharon. Our Overweight Children (Berkeley: University of California), 2004
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Ellin, Abby. Teen Waistland (New York: Public Affairs), 2005.
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Gordon, Deborah. "Special Report: The Growing Problem of Childhood Obesity." Consumer Reports, January 2007.
Gondrahl, Paul. "At Wellspring Camp, Young Women Shed Pounds." Albany Times Union, December 14, 2007.
Grandy, Frances. "Camps for Pupils Thinking Thin." The New York Times, April 26, 1981.
Heshka S; Greenway F; Anderson JW; Atkinson RL; Hill JO; Phinney SD; Miller-Kovach K; Xavier Pi-Sunyer F. "Self-help weight loss versus a structured program after 26 weeks." Journal of American Medicine, 2000 September, Volume 109, Issue 4, p. 282-287.
Lawson, Carol. "3813 Pounds Down." The New York Times, July 18, 1991.
Macken, Dawn. "What They Were Thinking: The Weight of Their Years." New York Times Magazine, August 26, 2001.
Mieszkowski, Katharine. "Gut Check," Salon.com, September 2005.
Nathanson, Laura. The Portable Pediatrician (New York: Viking Press), 2002.
Pinkwater, Daniel. Fat Camp Commandos (New York: Scholastic Press), 2001.
Pinkwater, Daniel. Fat Camp Commandos Go West (New York: Scholastic Press), 2002.
Rimm, Sylvia. Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children. (Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books), 2004.
Rubenstein, Carin. "Today's Kids Turn Off Fitness." The New York Times, October 7, 1990.
Scott, Megan. "New Weight Loss Camps Help Kids Shed Weight," March 6, 2008, see http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/030608/liv_254328232.shtml.
Wellspring Camps and Wellspring Academies
Walker, LL, Gateley, PJ, Bewick, BM; Hill, AJ. Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioral Studies, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. "Children's Weight Loss Camps: Psychological Benefit or Jeopardy?" Journal of Obesity Related Metabolic Disorders, June 2003, Volume 27, Issue 6, p. 748-54.
Wudunn, Sheryl. "Rotund Shape No Longer Means Good Fortune." The New York Times, August 27, 1991.
