Wellspring Camps are Effective
Wellspring Camps really work!
New research from top universities shows that overweight young children are 5x more likely to become obese adolescents, that children are likely to become more and more overweight, and 89% of overweight teens become overweight or obese adults. In addition, overweight teenagers often face social and psychological challenges that can have permanent effects.
The health risks associated with being overweight are well documented. Therefore, an early intervention – while children are still young, or in their early adolescence – is imperative.
Research involving adults shows that even modest weight loss (a decrease of less than 10%) can produce beneficial health effects and that the heaviest people benefit most from modest weight loss.
Initial Weight Loss Success
Compare the weight gains that occurred in the year prior to camp to the dramatic results obtained at our camps. Note also, below, that outpatient programs typically produce much slower, and much less motivating, outcomes.
The graph below reveals the most important outcome of all: on average, participants continued to lose more weight after returning home from Wellspring. This is statistically and medically very significant and virtually unprecedented result in the history of research on weight loss.
The following graph shows the results for all of the controlled studies on the treatment of childhood and adolescent weight problems that were published in the past 40 years. You can see that the results from the typical professional programs get better when the programs are longer. The results for our programs, programs that immerse participants in lifestyle change, barely fit on the same chart because they are so much better.
