news Zionist Addicted to Cheese Goes to $6K/Week Rehab, Relapses Amid Anti-Israel Protests

May 18

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A Manhattan law school student was so hooked on cheese she had to go to rehab to end her insatiable appetite for dairy, she told The Post.

Adela Cojab said her Camembert cravings began during her junior year at New York University, in spring 2018, when she binged almost daily on the "cheapest" bricks of white cheddar and Parmesan she could find.

"I stopped by either Morton Williams or by Whole Foods and I would just buy cheese, and I would literally just eat a block of cheese with my hands," said Cojab, 27, often while sitting on the floor of her Midtown apartment alone in the dark. "It was the only thing that would make me feel somewhat whole."

Attending a two-week wellness retreat at Hilton Head Health in South Carolina, which costs at minimum $5,820 a week, helped the asiago addict gain control over her eating disorder.

Instructors and counselors taught her the basics of how to order and prepare healthy meals, count calories and consider healthier snacks, like blueberries or popcorn in lieu of havarti.

Her weight has since dropped to a string-cheese-slim 123 pounds, in part aided by Ozempic prescribed to deal with her diabetes risk, she said.

"I dabble, but not in the way that I used to before," she said, adding the recent waves of anti-Israel encampments at Columbia and other universities prompted brief relapses.

"When I'm really stressed, I'll have a block of cheese, but it doesn't happen that often."