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29
Britain's first live-in school for fat pupils - guardian.co.uk(Childhood Obesity News)
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Britain’s finest boarding school exclusively for overweight and obese teenagers is to open in the Lake District. The school will open in three years and will be run by the American company Wellspring Academies. Ryan Craig, president of Wellspring and an adviser to the US Department of Education, said the company was surprised by the extent of childhood obesity in Britain, as well as levels of interest in the school from parents and children. Britain has seen a dramatic increase in childhood obesity, leaving the government struggling to meet its target of halting the rise among under-11s by 2010. However, experts have questioned the need for specialist boarding schools and say there have been no studies into the long-term results. Melvyn Roffe, chair of the Boarding Schools’ Association, which represents 550 state and independent boarding schools in Britain, is also sceptical. Read Childhood Obesity
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