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Teens struggle with weight-loss at camp.
Byline: Aline Mendelsohn
LAKE WALES, Fla. _ The taunting started in first grade.
Flabby Abby, Abby the cow, the other kids would call her. Abby Lewis told her mother she wanted to go to school in China, because it was the farthest place from Florida she could imagine.
Instead of China, Abby, now 16, ended up going to boarding school in Massachusetts and spending summers at a weight-loss camp in Lake Wales, Fla.
Abby, who lives near Naples, Fla., has attended the camp for eight years. She has not managed to maintain her weight loss. But Cindy Lewis says her daughter did maintain something else: friends she has known for years.
These days, shedding pounds is only one aspect of weight-loss camps for youths. Friendships play a key role in the camp experience, directors say.
"A lot of these kids don't have much of a social life at home, and (the social environment) is as important, if not more so, than the weight loss itself," says Tony Sparber, founder of New Image Weight Loss Camps.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Teens struggle with weight-loss at camp.