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1) Heavyweights
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A group of underdog kids discover their beloved summer camp has been sold to a crazy fitness fanatic who's determined to make their lives miserable. The kids unite to turn the tables, take back their woodsy hideaway and challenge the rival camp to the most outrageous summer games of all.
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Only in the hands of British humor master P.G. Wodehouse can a plot involving a horrendously spoiled child and a slew of botched kidnapping attempts become an uproariously funny comedy of errors. Ogden Ford, the Little Nugget referred to in the book's title, is a petulant brat who has been coddled to the point of no return by his indulgent parents. Because of the family's immense wealth, Ogden represents a big fat payday to various nefarious
...3) Blubber
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
5) Heavyweights
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Kids at a fat camp band together and overthrow the fitness obsessed counselor and his tyrannical ways.
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After her father's death, Gray Lachmann, finds herself compulsively overeating. Determined to take control again, she takes a job at a weight-loss camp. There she has to deal with devious co-counselors. combative teenage campers and the discovery of a teenage half-sister she never knew she had.
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Sarah Byrnes, her face and hands badly burned in a mysterious accident at age three, and Eric Calhoune, overweight from years of Oreos, Twinkies, and root beer floats, are inseperable through childhood. When the truth of Sarah's horrific past finally catches up with her, Eric must help her find a way through the pain.
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Abigail dreads swimming lessons. Every time she dives into the pool, she makes a big splash, and all the girls in her class shout: Abigail's a whale! Abigail can see that she is larger than the other girls. She feels huge, heavy, and out of place. Abigails swimming teacher takes her aside and points out: we can change how we see ourselves.
11) Husky
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"Twelve-year-old Davis lives in an old brownstone with his mother and grandmother in Brooklyn. He loves people-watching in Prospect Park, visiting his mom in the bakery she owns, and listening to the biggest operas he can find as he walks everywhere. But Davis is having a difficult summer. As questions of sexuality begin to enter his mind, he worries people don't see him as anything other than "husky." To make matters worse, his best girlfriends are...
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Paradise volume third film
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The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire,...
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Aprende a tomar decisiones saludables, y dales a tus hijos el legado más preciado: ¡su salud!
Una de las tareas más importantes para los padres es educar y preparar a sus hijos para enfrentar con éxito el resto de sus vidas. Hay necesidades emocionales, espirituales y físicas que debemos satisfacer. Pero en esta sociedad a las apuradas, muchas veces nuestros hábitos alimenticios acaban por caer en...
Una de las tareas más importantes para los padres es educar y preparar a sus hijos para enfrentar con éxito el resto de sus vidas. Hay necesidades emocionales, espirituales y físicas que debemos satisfacer. Pero en esta sociedad a las apuradas, muchas veces nuestros hábitos alimenticios acaban por caer en...
19) The kids menu
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"'The Kids Menu' is a feature documentary from the team that brought you 'Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead.' As filmmaker Joe Cross spent time traveling the world with his previous two films, he met thousands of people and one issue that came up again and again was what to do about the growing childhood obesity problem. In 'The Kids Menu,' Joe meets with experts, parents, teachers and kids, coming to the realization that childhood obesity isn't the real issue,...