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fter a light kosher meal, 450 Jew-
ish women at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek stood up from
their lunch tables, pushed in their
chairs and started rolling their
heads back and forth, gyrating
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their hips and bending their
knees in squats, up and down.
This wasn't your typical coffee klatch.
At the Dec. 6 conference sponsored by the
Weizmann Institute of Science, a crowd of
30-to-60-somethings listened to insights on
two perennially frustrating issues: health
and growing older.
The featured speakers were Rebecca Gor-
rell, director of fitness at Canyon Ranch, a
resort in Arizona; and Dr. Sonya Friedman,
psychologist, author and media personali-
ty.
Ms. Gorrell, a spunky woman in her ear-
ly 40s, initiated the after-lunc program by
asking the audience to get up and exercise.
Her speech focused on "Loving the Body You
Have ... Having the Body You Love.”
Raise your hands when you think of three
things you hate about your bodies, she told
the crowd.
"Only three?" asked one woman as hands
in the crowd darted upward.
Now raise your hands when you think of
three things you love about your bodies, chal-
lenged Ms. Gorrell, noting that the women
responded more slowly.
"I don't see too many hands and I find that
very disturbing," she said.
The average American woman is 5 feet 4
inches tall and weighs 144 pounds. The av-
erage female model is 5 feet 9 1/2 inches tall

girls and grown-ups still
appeal to fashion maga-
zines for their definition
of beauty and slender-
ness.
"We're just short for
our weight," Ms. Gorrell
joked.
But her primary mes-
sage was more serious.
"Most women focus on
having the body they love
rather than loving the
body they have," she
said.
Too few women feel
good in their skins. Too
many women consider
exercise a punishment for being fat Top: From left: Jan McIntire,
Rebecca Gorrell, Nancy
and lazy. Our lingo perpetuates Jacobson,
Dr. Sonya Friedman,
these attitudes: Work me out. Whip Dr. Claude Oster, Fran Ginsburg,
me into shape.
Lois Spector Freeman.
"When you hear these words, ex-
ercise doesn't sound like fun," Ms. Above: Dr. Sonya Friedman:
"Where are all of you? Home?
Gorrell said.
But it should be. At the very Getting old?"
least, exercise should be ap-
proached as something women do Right: A w aiter serves Susie
some topping for her
for their own good, not because Schecter
heart-sma rt dessert.
they were "bad." Ms. Gorrell sug-
gested exercising a minimum of
three hours a week. Routines should incor- an ABC talk-
porate cardiovascular training, like aero- show host, wrote
bics, strength conditioning and stretching? a column for the Detroit Free Press, runs her
The No. 1 killer of American women, she own psychology practice in the suburbs,
admonished, is not breast cancer. It's car- writes books, wins awards, serves on the
board of the Weizmann Institute and — •
diovascular disease.
Dr. Sonya Friedman, who spent seven

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