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  Summer camp to help internet addicted kids
Updated 05 August 2003, 15.03
There's help if you're addicted to the internet
If your parents give you a hard time for spending too much time online, be glad you don't live in Germany where things are much stricter.

Some kids living there who spend hours and hours online have been sent away to a special camp to help them kick the habit.

At the camp they're only allowed to go online for half an hour a day, and have to do other things to make them more healthy.

Eat better

The kids on the boot camp have to do exercise
The kids on the boot camp have to do exercise
Often people who are addicted to the net get very little exercise, and eat junk food because it's easy to scoff at their desk.

So the kids all have to do three hours exercise every day, and are also taught to eat food that's loads better for them.

Most of the kids on the camp don't think they'll stop surfing completely, but hope they've learnt how to spend less time online in the future.

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