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Nutrition and Culinary Training

Learning simple cooking skills and how to eat this way at home

At Wellspring, campers live and learn a healthy lifestyle they can continue at home.

With that in mind, the Adventure Camp’s unique Nutrition Education program focuses on what is actually necessary for weight loss and weight control, according to scientific research.

Wellspring Adventure Camp North Carolina’s Nutrition Education Program helps you understand:

• When a diet does and does not have a scientific basis, or when it’s a fad diet
• Scientific credentials – when to trust someone, and when someone is taking undue advantage of their doctor’s coat
• The fundamentals of the science of weight gain – why it’s so easy to gain, and so hard to lose
• What scientific research shows about weight loss
• What scientific research shows about successful long-term weight control
• Dissecting fad diets – finding some kernels of science, but mostly empty promises
• Restaurant training – training on ordering in restaurants followed by a trip to a restaurant
• Grocery store training – activities and exercises in grocery stores

Simple cooking skills and menus

Wellspring Adventure Camp campers learn how to apply their nutrition training in culinary classes.

Culinary classes occur in the field, on adventure expeditions, as campers learn to cook quick and healthful meals on Coleman stoves. Then, when campers return to camp, we continue the field lessons in the Wellspring kitchen.

Wellspring Adventure Camp campers learn to prepare very low-fat, high-enjoyment foods – not gourmet, but rather quick, practical dishes, like spaghetti with a fat-free marina sauce or a fat-free grilled cheese sandwich.

Wellspring Adventure Camp campers return home with a new set of culinary tools and new confidence in their ability to prepare simple, very low-fat and low calorie-density meals and snacks.