How Wellspring Compares to Other Weight Loss Camps
Why send your child to weight loss camp? There are many summer camps, locally and around the state, that focus on various activities. While these camps may be fun, if your child is struggling with his or her weight, wouldn’t it be better to have a great, fun summer, and also resolve your child’s weight issue once and for all?
Currently 1/3 of American children and adolescents are overweight or obese, and the physical and social consequences of being overweight are severe. If your child is overweight, the time to act is now and the most convenient and fun way to do so is by sending your child to Wellspring.
At Wellspring, we think about the long term. Losing weight at camp is great, but what happens when campers return home is what really matters.
In February 2007, the publication Consumers Digest reviewed weight loss camps and profiled Wellspring programs. Consumers Digest concluded that Wellspring Camps are more effective than traditional weight loss programs. To read this article, click here.
Wellspring Camps are the most effective fitness and weight loss programs and Wellspring’s results have received worldwide attention. In 2005 The New York Times featured an article on weight loss camps and pointed to Wellspring as the most promising program. To read the full text of the article, click here.
Teenage Waistland, a book by a New York Times journalist, chronicles the choices for overweight teens wanting to lose weight, starting with traditional diet camps before spending nearly a chapter on Wellspring Camps and sister program Wellspring Academy, formerly Academy of the Sierras.
To learn more about this book at Amazon.com, please click here.
