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(Brookline, MA 1/7/13) Emma Samuels, left, and Aminah Herzig are beginning a girls’s interfaith well being and wellness help group, Slim Peace, in Brookline, Monday, January 07, 2013. Employees picture by Angela Rowlings.
(Brookline, MA 01/07/13) Emma Samuels, left, and Aminah Herzig are beginning a girls’s interfaith well being and wellness help group, Slim Peace, in Brookline, Monday, January 07, 2013. Employees picture by Angela Rowlings.
TEAMING UP: Dieticians Emma Samuels, far left, and Aminah Herzig will promote wholesome existence and interfaith understanding at Slim Peace in Brookline.
UNITY: ‘A Slim Peace’ is a documentary a couple of group of Israeli and Palestinian girls making an attempt to shed kilos, and for which a brand new weight-loss program is called.
A novel weight-loss program goals to interrupt down ethnic limitations whereas serving to shoppers struggle fats.
Slim Peace holds its first assembly tonight in Brookline the place 20 Jewish and Muslim girls will attempt to develop wholesome consuming habits and bolster vanity.
“It’s about weight and well being and also you’re at your most weak,” mentioned founder Yael Luttwak. “You’ll be able to’t depart the method the identical.”
Luttwak, a documentary filmmaker, directed 2007’s “A Slim Peace,” a couple of group of Israeli and Palestinian girls struggling to shed kilos. “A Slim Peace,” which premiered on the Tribeca Movie Pageant, sparked the weight-loss program of the identical identify in Jerusalem, which goes robust.
“I’ve seen the influence and the facility that girls have with the so-called enemy or the ‘different.’
We’re all sufferer to stereotyping,” she mentioned.
And whereas the discrimination isn’t as sizzling a subject right here in america, there’s nonetheless rigidity, she mentioned. Which is why she started trying to find American cities to host this system. Enter dieticians Emma Samuels, who’s Jewish, and her longtime good friend Aminah Herzig, who’s Muslim.
“We received’t be discussing faith or political occasions, however the undertone is tolerance,” Samuels mentioned. “We take pleasure in wholesome existence. We take pleasure in being collectively. We’re considered one of them, too.”
“Them” are the ten Jewish and 10 Muslim girls attending the 10-week program — $100 for the entire 2-hour periods.
“It’s about conscious consuming. There’s no deprivation. It’s about following by means of on a wholesome life-style,” Herzig mentioned.
Subjects vary from the essential meals teams (fiber, protein) to time administration. Samuels expects the periods to be non secular — “It’s a journey” — however she and Herzig are introducing a scale on the first assembly so girls can have accountability if they need it.
“Folks wish to really feel like they’ve the instruments,” Herzig mentioned.
Slim Peace Boston doesn’t utterly mirror its Center East counterpart, which is closely primarily based on a Mediterranean eating regimen. The American model is predicated on USDA pointers, and takes on such cultural fads as juicing and celeb diets.
“We’re all fed a lot info, you simply don’t know what to do with all of it. We’re going to open doorways for folks to assist one another,” mentioned Herzig. “Eat your meals. Don’t let it eat you.”
Slim Peace Boston’s inaugural program is full, however Samuels and Herzig are already planning a spring session. For extra info, go to www.slimpeace.org.
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