The Athletic Annapolitan

Fit and Healthy Summer Camps

Summer camps should be about fun but these summer camps offer health and fitness lessons to boot.

I grew up in a small southern town and learned that food is only made better by adding more fat and salt to the mix. Eating my Aunt Faye’s fried chicken was all the proof I needed to know that good food means fattening food. Fortunately, I also spent every day of my summer vacations as a child at the Boys and Girl’s Club of Wilmington, NC, and quickly learned this was not necessarily the case. Yes, my Aunt Faye’s fried chicken still calls my name, but I also know how to read a label, how to shop mostly in the vegetable and meats isles in order to avoid processed foods and to move a little each day. I learned these lessons as a 6-year-old and still today I find myself leaning on them in order to live a fit and healthy life. Many parents in …

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