Halal menus, bilingual social workers and meal plans with food from around the world. One Sydney eating disorder clinic is smashing the myth illnesses only plague Anglo Australians.
Health by Angira Bharadwaj
Premium Content  The long standing myth that illnesses like anorexia and bulimia only plague Anglo Australians has been smashed by a clinic in Sydney s west that s using halal food menus and multicultural social workers to radically change the life of eating disorder patients. Westmead Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Clinic head Dr Michael Kohn said the centre s rare multicultural approach to treating eating disorders has been 20 years in the making. In 2000, we found there were two quite large cultural communities from whom young people weren t coming through, Pacific Islanders and Arabic communities. Of course, they also get eating disorders, but they weren t coming for help, he said.
Halal menus, bilingual social workers and meal plans with food from around the world. One Sydney eating disorder clinic is smashing the myth illnesses only plague Anglo Australians.
Over eight days from Thursday 10 to 18 December this year, the Jewish community of Melbourne is celebrating Hannukah, or Chanukah.
Pillars of Light, at Federation Square, provides Melburnians with an opportunity to come together over a multicultural celebration, to share the light, and focus on what unites us as a city, particularly after such a difficult year.
Maria Dimopoulos AM, Special Adviser, Multicultural Communities for the Victorian Government, spoke last Friday at the Pillars of Light.
“We all celebrate the light as symbol of love and multiculturalism, it is a celebration which began as conflict over 2000 years ago between the Seleucids and the community of Jews in Syria, which now brings us together,” Ms Dimopoulos said.