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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• The Epic Family Feud Behind an Iconic American Weight-Loss Camp for Kids
• Two teenagers placed in foster care after weight loss plan fails
• Calls to set up fat camps for obese children in Scotland
• Childhood obesity: are new treatment centres the solution?Weight-loss Camps and Their Effect on Childhood Obesity 
• Psychosocial outcomes in a weight loss camp for overweight youth
• Inside Britain’s First Ever Residential “Fat Camp” 
• Working at Camp Shane: Employee Reviews
• Missing campers, falsified documents and other issues revealed in CT weight-loss camp investigation
• Kids Weight Loss Camp That Closed Has History of Violations
• Weighty Problems by Laura Backstrom
• The Actually Terrible Things that Happen at Fat Camp

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