A Kansas City family prepares a meal together. A new study finds that working mothers log more hours — and get more stressed — than working fathers while multitasking at home. (This family wasn't part of the research.)
A new study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review comes up with some findings that lots of women may feel they already know too much about: Working mothers spend significantly more time multitasking at home than working dads. And those mothers aren't happy about it.
Wellspring students do high steps on the tennis court. Exercise is paramount at Wellspring, and a little rain doesn't get in the way of outdoor activities.
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Students do high steps on the tennis court. Exercise is paramount at Wellspring, and a little rain doesn't get in the way of outdoor activities.
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Healthful dieting is more than half the battle. Every calorie and gram of fat is strictly monitored by the staff at Wellspring and carefully recorded by the students. Here, Savannah Davis finishes her dinner with broccoli.
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Wellspring students wear pedometers and are required to take a minimum of 10,000 steps each day.
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A board in the cafeteria breaks down the calories and fat grams for each meal. A full salad bar is always offered.
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Students aim to consume 1,200 to 1,400 calories per day, a dramatic change for most of them.
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Jade Tapia, 14, cries as she says goodbye to her father just after arriving on the Wellspring campus in August. If students make enough progress in the first eight weeks, they earn the right to go home for the weekend or to go out to eat with their visiting families.
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Academics are rigorous at Wellspring. Here, students sit in a math class on campus. With a maximum campus enrollment of 50 students, class size is generally very small.
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Savannah Davis calculates her calorie and fat intake during a free moment.
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Wellspring students go for a swim in the lake just before sunset.
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Bethany Gomez (from left), Ana Pierdant, Rachel Fujiyoshi and Jessica Wiegel swap stories and paint fingernails in their dorm before lights out.
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Savannah Davis (second from right) walks with her friends to the cafeteria. In the five years of its existence, Wellspring has earned a reputation for teaching overweight children to prefer healthful food and exercise.
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Students walk through the scenic campus of Wellspring Academy, a boarding school for overweight children, located near Asheville, N.C. In addition to taking regular academic classes, students learn to control weight through a healthful diet, exercise and counseling.
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Haley Humphrey, 15, of Athens, Ala., lost about 34 pounds at a Wellspring camp last summer.
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Wellspring student Bethany Gomez, 16, arrived in August from her home in Galveston, Texas. She had already spent two months at Wellspring last year as well as six weeks at a Wellspring summer camp and had lost about 65 pounds. "I'm about halfway there," she says.
First of two stories, which are part of an ongoing series on obesity in America. The first part begins in August as students start their weight-loss journey at Wellspring Academy, a boarding school in Brevard, N.C. The second checks in with the students a few months later.
