Fat Camps Like Camp Pocono Trails Perfect For Kids

While not new in the world of summer camps for kids to spend their summer vacation at, fat camps such as the one featured in the MTV show “Fat Camp”, Camp Pocono Trails in Pennsylvania is a fun option for many of today’s kids. Some of these camps have been around for 30 and 40 years and offer most of the fun traditional activities that one would think of for a summer camp for kids, but with a focus on proper diet, exercises and weight loss.

The goal of these fat camps is to reverse the mentality of today’s kids and the influence from video games, computers, TV and food selections that have resulted in an increase in the number of children overweight. According to the CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, surveys show around 17% of the children over the age of 6 is overweight. For some children the effects of childhood obesity lasts a lifetime. The CDC also states that surveys show that if a child is obese between the ages of 10 to 15 years, then 80% of them will also be obese as adults.

Diet is one of the key components to the structures of the camps. The children that attend fat camps not only learn how to select which foods are better for them to eat, but also they learn the important role of the appropriate portions of the food they eat. This allows them to still eat the foods that they enjoy, but without gaining all the weight they loose while at camp.

Exercise is the other key component for the children at these camps. No child likes to exercise, so the camps use fun activities such as sports to show the children how to incorporate exercise into their daily activities through fun. The goal is that after the children leave the fat camps they will spend some time running and playing instead of always on the latest video game.

Camp Pocono Trails is not the only option for overweight children to attend. There are fat camps all across the United States such as Camp Shane in New York, Camp Vanguard in Florida, Wellspring Camps in various states including Hawaii and Camp Shining Stars in North Carolina just to mention a few.

Parents can also find tips to help maintain their children’s weight and health from the CDC on their tips page. They can also find some very interesting choices of foods that is better for their children to eat and that their children will want to eat in a book by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding called “Eat This Not That! For Kids!: Be the Leanest, Fittest Family on the Block!”