2011年4月12日星期二

Rabbi sound an alarm about eating disorders

While no one knows whether such errors are more common among Orthodox Jews as in the society as a whole, can they be more incomprehensible to outsiders. Orthodox women will become famous expected to modestly, but coupler feel no qualms in a future bride dress size questions - and their mother - and the preferred answer is 0 to 4, extra small.

Rabbis say the problem is particularly difficult to treat because of the shame that long surrounded mental illness among Orthodox Jews.

"It's an amazing stigma connected to eating disorders - this is the real problem," said Rabbi Saul Zucker, educational Director of the Union of Orthodox Jewish communities of America or a.s., the Organization, the problems the all important Kashrut stamp for food. "Hide but it is not to make it go away." "If it us not, we will it worse."

Referring to the high risk of death from heart problems and suicide in patients with anorexia, saying: "this is a luxury-type of the disease, not where, OK, someone is a bit underweight." "People are dying."

As a teenager, Naomi Feigenbaum developed bizarre eating habits, which had nothing to do with Jewish dietary laws: Cocoa Puffs and milk in the morning, when she thought they disable calories throughout the day, and nothing but Crystal light and chewing gum burn the rest of the day had.

At the kosher table in her home in the vicinity of Cleveland said they, them arguments would start with their parents, so they could off STOMP and food. She lost weight so fast in the high school that she used safety pins, their long skirts around their waist cinch.

The time, came to visit their Rabbi, she was emaciated. He told her that she must visit a treatment programme, which meets on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest, even if they violate religious rules of riding in a car to get there to get. You could even food that was not kosher.

", As I, it realized a matter of life and death was has", said fig tree in an interview. "My Rabbi Jewish law easily takes." "But he told me that the Jewish laws are things that God wanted us to live, not die of and that a life has priority over all of them."

Now 24, has written a memoir, "One Life" (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009), about her recovery from anorexia after treatment in the Florida branch of the Renfrew Center, the nationwide food errors clinic.

There is little research to specify, how many women are in a similar position. Israeli studies find consistently high rates of disordered eating among the Jewish young people of but not Arab ones, and Israel's rate a diet is more than a woman among the highest in the world - in four - although obesity are relatively low.

Limited data on American Jews, but two small studies have reported high rates of disordered eating in certain communities. One of which, a study in 1996 an Orthodox high school in Brooklyn, found 1 in 19 girls had an eating disorder - about 50 percent higher than in the general population at the time. The 1996 study was carried out with the agreement that it would not be published. The other study, in the year 2008 saw 868 Jewish and non-Jewish high school students in Toronto and found that eating disorders 25 percent of the Jewish girl, who suffered treatment, compared with 18 percent of the non-Jewish girl deserves.

Demand to treatment programs, the Orthodox young people just to be asked to start the Renfrew Center offers kosher food at its clinics in Philadelphia, New York, Dallas and Florida, while a new residential facility catering for young women from the United States last year in Jerusalem opened. It is not affiliated with Renfrew.

Relief resources, a mental health referral agency that serves Orthodox communities, introduces a hotline eating disorders and in the last year the o.u. together with social work "Hungry to be heard," a documentary about eating disorders under the Orthodox make.

Most of the young women interviewed for this article they said it, blame the culture for their health problems and said that they derived support from their religious faith. But they NLB spoke to open on the enormous pressure to marry who you feel young and immediately families and the challenges career imperative, perfect housewives, the elaborate Sabbath prepare meals.

Experts say that eating disorders are usually in adolescence and other times of the transition. And the girls are often in Orthodox families, help, care for their younger brothers and sisters, so they have little time to their own interests to pursue. Experts suspect that anorexia is a possibility of adult responsibilities stall by literally stop can provide the biological clock: the drastic weight loss can stop menstruation.

Orthodox women be expected young to a strict code of conduct, to meet with some outlets for rebellion. They are expected to be chaste until marriage and not today, until they are looking for a husband. A sin is even gossip.

When matchmaking starts, choose a partner after only a short time of courtship can be expected. Known mental illness in a family can affect the chances of a match, not only for the individual, but for brothers and sisters, as young women can prevent good psychiatric treatment.


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