Eating disorders 'not just a white persons' illness' | Ballina Shire Advocate
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 fro...