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Experts Dispute Wellspring's Approach
In this video and narrated gallery, students who attend campuses of a boarding academy for overweight kids describe their fight to lose weight.
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While some people thrive in authoritarian environments, he added, others find them oppressive and rebel.
Ludwig said he is particularly worried about the effect on vulnerable teenagers who regain weight after their families have sacrificed so much financially to send them to Wellspring.
"The sense of failure that can set in afterward" could inflict long-term damage, he said.
Kirschenbaum disagrees. In his view, Wellspring may plant the seed of future success in the same way many smokers make multiple attempts to quit before doing so.
"What this program does," he says, "is show them the yellow brick road."
-- Sandra G. Boodman
