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WASHINGTON (AP) - The last of the children who went away to camp this summer to lose weight are returning home, where the odds are that they will regain whatever they lost. Experts in childhood obesity say the fat fight is won or lost with the child's parents, not counselors. 'If you think the camp is going to solve the problem - the child will at long last lose weight and keep it that way - you can forget it,' said Dr. Oded Bar-Or, director of the Children's Exercise and Nutrition Center. Something must be done about the increasing number of children with weight problems, but fat camp probably isn't it. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, America is facing an unprecedented epidemic of childhood obesity. And with the weight comes a greater chance of contracting diabetes as well as risk factors for heart disease. Getting kids to play more and eat better could fight the weight gains, and going to camp can do both. So the experts have nothing against camp. 'Fat camp can be a nice jump start,' said Keith Ayoob, an associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association...
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