Losing Weight, Gaining Confidence At Camp

For this week's episode of CBS Doc Dot Com, I went to Camp Shane, listed on their Web site as "the original, longest running weight loss camp in the world" at 41 years and counting.
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For this week's episode of CBS Doc Dot Com, I went back to camp. OK, it wasn't my camp -- that would be Camp Algonquin in Argyle, New York, now defunct, where I spent many an idyllic summer growing up. It was Camp Shane in Ferndale, New York, listed on their Web site as "the original, longest running weight loss camp in the world" at 41 years and counting.

This is a tough time to be overweight or obese. Last week the Centers for Disease Control announced that obesity-related diseases account for 147 billion dollars in medical costs every year in the United States.

About a quarter of Americans are obese and two-thirds are either obese or overweight. Over the past twenty years, obesity in teenagers has

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