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Twenty-year-old dancer Alyssa Wendel first suffered from anorexia when she was in high school. Dancing was the way she coped throughout college, but when the pandemic first hit and dancing was no longer an option, she was forced once again to face her eating disorder.
Being sent home from school, dealing with the isolation and lockdown restrictions sent her into a tailspin, Wendel said. She suffered from disordered eating prior to the pandemic, she said, but “that’s where my eating disorder took hold of that and was like, ‘OK, so this is like the perfect time.’”
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Earlier this month, an unedited, unauthorized photo of reality star Khloe Kardashian standing poolside in an itsy-bitsy, very Kardashianesque bikini was posted on the internet. Kardashian and her team scrambled to get the photo off the web, threatening legal action against pretty much any social media users who’d reposted the pic on Twitter, Instagram or Reddit.
It didn’t matter that all of us who keep up with the Kardashians, wittingly or unwittingly, thought Khloe looked “younger, happier and healthier” than she had in years. (If you haven’t been keeping up, there’s been a lot of conversation about Khloe’s ever-changing face as of late.)
The Renfrew Center Tackles Eating Disorders in the Jewish Community
With all this emphasis on food, some people who have eating disorders may struggle to observe Jewish laws and customs.
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To say Jewish culture focuses a lot on food would be an understatement. There are large, festive meals every Shabbat and holiday. specifically Jewish foods like cholent, latkes, and kugel and minor and major fasts throughout the year. With all this emphasis on food or a lack thereof some people who have eating disorders may struggle to observe Jewish laws and customs.
That’s the focus of “Feasting, Fasting and Feelings; Oy Vey! A Transdiagnostic Approach to Treating Eating Disorders in the Jewish Community,” an online seminar the Renfrew Center of New York City is hosting on May 4 from 8:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. EST. The Renfrew Center, an eating disorder treatment center for adolescent girls and women, has sites all across the United States, includin
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