ANDP("ntn"); Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_xp1='';Ads_yp1='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0;Ads_channels=''; News Video Images ... Site Map SPECIAL NEWS Return to Flight REDNOVA NEWS Space Science Technology Health ... Video News REDNOVA EXTRAS RedNova E-Mail My RedNova Join RedNova RSS Feeds ... Tell A Friend, Win $500 Ads by Google Posted on: Thursday, 23 September 2004, 06:00 CDT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Discuss this story in the forum Change Font Size: A A A New Boarding School Teaches Weight Control Methods Click to enlarge Terry Henry fixes a plate of salad during dining period. Credit: AP By BILEN MESFIN REEDLEY, Calif. (AP) Required exercise at 7 a.m. sharp. No personal televisions or computers. A cafeteria bereft of potato chips and candy bars but full of good-for-you vegetables. Mal Mahedy's new school has tons of rules that other teens would find intolerable. But Mal, 16, embraces the lengthy list of do's and don'ts. She hopes it will finally help her overcome the one problem she says has plagued her since she was 10- her weight. The 5-foot-8, 285-pound teenager started her junior year this September at the Academy of the Sierras, a new yearlong therapeutic boarding school for overweight adolescents. | |
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