Nirvana Through Food?

Elyse Glickman, Jewish Exponent Feature
Source: http://www.jewishexponent.com

With Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in the rear-view mirror, many Jewish women still find themselves atoning on a daily basis, especially about what they look like and what food sins they may have committed to get there.

Knowing in her heart there was a better road to inner peace, author Ellen Frankel proposes that if we see our physical selves through a more enlightened perspective, real internal bliss will be easier to come by.

 The message comes via her spunky, middle-aged Jewish alter-ego character, Syd Arthur, in her just-published first novel, named after the character.

"One of the main things I learned about myself and other women struggling in their relationship with food was the question of whether or not they are entitled to pleasure," muses Frankel, who has worked in the field of eating-disorders treatment for 15 years.
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Do you ever experience feelings of guilt for satisfying your needs of hunger?  How can society/media contribute to these feelings?