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Recovering from eating disorders/negative body image

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Hi friends!
As one of my subjects for my final year of pre-tertiary study, I have to conduct and present a self-directed inquiry in a report.
The focus of my inquiry is on the relationship between body image and nutrition. Some of my focus questions include:
- How do the food and dieting industries influence mental health?
- How do the food and dieting industries influence body image?
- Is there money in poor body image?
- Advertising in favour of meat/dairy/egg industries i.e. studies with conflicts of interest
- Evidence for a plant-based diet in healing negative body image, relationship with food, personal fulfillment, self-respect, gratitude etc.
- Are the food industries against a plant-based diet?
As I hope to have made obvious, I personally believe there is a clear link between adopting a vegan lifestyle and improving mental health/body image/relationship with food/self-respect. Aside from the physiological effects of meat/dairy/eggs, I believe that there is something to be said for taking a stance against cruelty against other beings and how this stance can influence how one feels about one's own self.
I will be providing (mainly anecdotal) evidence for a vegan lifestyle being an effective tool in recovering from disordered eating habits.
If anyone on this forum would be happy to provide me with credible sources of information that may be relevant or helpful to my inquiry, I would be greatly appreciative! Anything to do with mental health and veganism/plant-based diets and mental health/negative body image and veganism etc. would be awesome.
SECONDLY, if anyone would be willing to be interviewed, either via phone call, Skype or email, about how veganism may have had an impact on your own body image and mental health (good OR bad - I need both sides to make it credible!), I would be really keen to hear from you!
My email address is graciekay.yt@gmail.com , and it is the best way to contact me.
Hopefully this gets some looks in :)
Grace x
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Sounds great! I'll share to Facebook, will have a quick look round for any material already out there on sites I'm familiar with.

What course are you on? Welcome to the forum, feel free to post first thing that takes your interest :)

Oh btw what's the deadline date on submissions?
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So 4 videos about disordered eating and veganism:

WHY ANOREXICS GO VEGAN by Brianna Jackson
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niDCnK6dxAE
GOING VEGAN WITH AN EATING DISORDER? (ft. Nichole)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCuBtnEFLMk
Can we please stop turning veganism into an eating disorder? (thoughts on orthorexia)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T409hM6MSIE
I gained weight. So what?! By Antastesia
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU7i_yIN0Gk

Some cons about pseudoscience within the vegan movement:

HCLF Critiques (FullyRaw, Raw till 4, 30BAD, 80/10/10, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgCZqNMzGwg&list=PLV9phP7EvKciheo-PglwtBeXTQnz1LvAR


I searched a zine library of self-published authors and came back with a list of eating disordered, body positive and vegan works, I’ve separated them to their primary subject matter but many overlap, you just need to decide which ones would be useful to you and reach out to the authors to ask if they can send over their personal anecdotes that relate to your study for quoting:

Body eating disordered works:

Everything is Fine
- https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/227606659
Pieces 6.5 / My Aim is True 5
- https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/193246219/pieces-65-my-aim-is-true-5-perzine
Here. In My Head #15
- http://catherineelms.co.uk/
Eating Love
- http://wemakezines.ning.com/photo/cakes-on-the-loose/


Body Positivity:

Body Image, fatness and blackness
- https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/222492767/body-imagefatness-and-blackness
Fat-tastic: A Body Positivity Zine #3
- http://www.sweetcandydistro.com/
- https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/sage?section_id=5661152
Tiger Stripes: bodies
- http://www.abeautifulbodyproject.org/tiger-stripes-project/
Beast Grrl #1
- http://dorisdorisdoris.com/zines1
CHEER THE EFF UP #4
- http://www.portlandbuttonworks.com/cheer-the-eff-up-4
dig deep zine #7
- https://www.etsy.com/listing/242603015/dig-deep-zine-7
Collide: On Physical and Mental Illness
- http://mendmydresspress.bigcartel.com/product/collide-on-physical-and-mental-illness
Paper X-ray
- https://raumschiffdistro.wordpress.com/zines/


Veganism:
Seen not heard
- https://brobtiltzineworld.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/sam-mcpheeters-seen-not-heard-1/
- https://archive.org/details/SeenNotHeard-1
Complicating Veganism: Creating a more intersectional vegan movement
- http://clementinemorrigan.com/
seawitch #3
- http://clementinemorrigan.com
I’m not VEGAN, but this zine is! (And it’s Gluten-Free too!) Recipes, Smut, Poems & Thoughts
- https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/218647573/a-vegan-zine-with-some-unexpected-things?ref=related-1
Sticking Around #1
- http://wemakezines.ning.com/photo/sticking-around-1


I can recommend other places to post your submissions call out too (just be sure to include a deadline date or you will be getting emails for years)
http://wemakezines.ning.com/forum/topics/call-for-submissions-thread-all-posts-that-are-calls-for-submissi
http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/12173
https://seagreenzines.com/category/calls-for-submissions/

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Everything is Fine

The first three issues of my perzine “Everything.is.Fine” which addresses eating disorder and recovery, grief, sexual consent, feminism, body politics, and self-esteem. The third issue is a special edition of color collages.

Issue 1: digest size, 34 pages. B&W text with collage.

This zine is about haivng an eating disorder and writing the zine as part of working to change. Talks about body hate and social expectation of thinness; sexual maipulation and the way we are taught “no means no” but also that we aren’t supposed to say no and should just go along with what the other person wants. Nver feeling a sens of belonging in general or belonging in her body. Finding paganism and a new story.

Issue 2: digest size, 34 pages. B&W text with collage.

This issue addresses eating disorders and recovery, grieving the death of my father, the Salem magical community, messages written on public restroom walls, and dreams.

This zine might contain triggering scenarios so please take care of yourself. I would love for you to read my zine and reach out.

Issue 3: 11.5 x 8 inches, 16 pages. Full color, glossy with handwritten text and collage.

I discuss feminism, being a bad feminist, body politics, eating disorder recovery, joining Ladies Rock Camp Boston, being in a punk band, and suicide.

Some of these issues can be very triggering so please take care of yourself.


Pieces 6.5 / My Aim is True 5

This split zine was made with my friend Carrie. We tell two very different stories about body image, but when you get to the salt of each narrative, the feelings are quite similar. Pieces covers an acceptance of acne and scarring. My Aim is True covers acceptance with weight. Both are about the need for self-discovery, self-love, and the people who helped get us get where we are today.


Here. In My Head. #15: Life with a Chronic Digestive Disorder

This zine is all about my experiences living with IBS, and includes topics such as triggers, shame, body image, coping techniques, tips and tricks, and how to be an ally to chronically ill people.


Eating Love

A split zine I made with my mom about body peace & healing through our experience of baking together

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Body Image, fatness and blackness

Thoughts, poems and some body-positive erotic fiction!


Marked For Life, FAT-TASTIC!

Sage Adderley is a single mama of three humans and one cat. She is passionate about kindness, coffee, mental health, fat activism, and the DIY lifestyle. Sage is the owner of Sweet Candy Distro & Press, Sage’s Blog Tours, and writes the personal zine, Marked For Life. She is also the creator of the body positive zine, FAT-TASTIC! Sage currently resides in the magical land of Olympia, Washington where she swoons over the breathtaking view of Mount Rainier. Invoking Nonna is her first novel.

Fat-tastic: A Body Positivity Zine #3

A great collection of stories: Internalized fat hatred, and working to filter it out; critiques of capitalism and misogyny, great drawings and self-portraits; Things Not to Say to Fat People and Things TO Say; Going to the Gynecologist; a story about being small and very thin and mistaken for a child; On Being Naked; Steping outside comfort zones.

Fat-tastic! #2

A great little compilation about body image, with stories about Yoga for Everyone, Fat & Healthy, Scars, Ballance, and a sweet and powerful letter to Beth Ditto, who is a great role model for fat acceptance.

Fat-tastic: A Compilation zine about Loving Your Body #1

The first issue of the great zine! Includes the essays/stories “Fat Math: The Equation of Self-Love,” weight versus wellness; patriarchy and the media; an love/apology letter to the body; parents patroling weight; great artwork and self-portraits; a daughter dealing with judgements in school; DIY positive affirmation cards, and more!


Tiger Stripes: bodies

I am a mother and an organic farmer in rural missouri. The tiger stripes project came about because of my need to heal my relationship with my body. It came about because of a strong need to share with others around body shame and, together, learn how to heal. The project exists in the physical form of a zine – a small self-published magazine full of photos, my writings, and interviews with other women.


Beast Grrl #1


Created by a group of teenage girls in Balitmore, this zine is strong and powerful, including a manifesto of feminism which prioratizes connecting with other girls with support, articles, stories and art about women in history, youth activism, body image and more. – Cindy Crabb


CHEER THE EFF UP #4

Is it truth? Is it fiction? Doesn’t matter! it’s great! Issue #4 of Cheer the Eff Up talks about growing up awkward. It’s about anxiety and depression and how to cope. It’s about being male without anyone showing you what to do with your feelings or how to grow into your body. Jonas writes about his friends and how they help him, encounters with others that make an impact on him, and working a 9-5 job for 10 years and counting.

I love Cheer the Eff Up, and this issue is no exception. -KA


dig deep zine #7

NEW! Dig Deep #7 is a split zine with Tongueswell #3.

Review of Dig Deep #7 by lb of Truckface zine — “Notice: I do not run; I do not exercise. How would I find enjoyment in a zine centered on running? Because Heather is the shit and this zine is about so much more than running. This is about the knowledge of the body in public and contending with physical setbacks. This is about encouragement and a long-lasting friendship during a preparation for a half-marathon. This is about constantly pushing oneself to take up space in the city to boldly declare: “I AM TRYING TO DO THIS AND I AM FUCKING AWESOME.” This is life-affirming and amazing. Seriously, get this now!”

Review of Tongueswell #3 by lb of Truckface zine — “Jen packs a punch of pure emotion in this issue of Tongueswell. Beginning with annoyances of rude customers taking up space at her coffee shop job, she then reminisces on the life and loss of her cat. The stories of work and vet visits are intertwined to illustrate the emotional taxation of everyday life and her ability to move forward through so much pain. While reading this issue, I was in tears reflecting on the loss of loved ones, both human and animal, through her own descriptions of watching a loved one struggle through pain. This was a good read and a good cry.”


Collide: On Physical and Mental Illness

From the editor: Collide is a collection of essays by those who are living with a physical disability and some form of mental illness.

None of this is easy. Discussing these two distinct but intertwined parts of ourselves, the dynamic, conflicting, challenging, hopeful parts of ourselves, is to be doubly vulnerable. It is to reveal the colliding parts of ourselves that are most intimate, and often hidden.

Issue One

Essays include:
Finding Meaning in Pain by Maranda Elizabeth (Telegram)
Wow by Synthia Nicole (Damaged Mentality)
Half and Half by JC (Tributaries)
When Disabilities, Dysfunctional Childhoods, and Mental Health Collide by Kerri Radley (Deafula)
With cover art by Anna Gk
Half letter-sized, B&W, 32 pages

Issue Two
Essays include:
Soul Meets Body by Ariane K (Chronically Yours)
Being One Person by Kimball Anderson (Hands, Unfolding)
A Funny Thing by JC (Tributaries)
This is Your Brain by Anina Ertel
The Obvious and Then Some by Synthia Nicole (Damaged Mentality)
Passing v. Omitting by Kerri Radley (Deafula)
Cover art by Sara Bear
Half letter-sized, B&W, 32 pages

Paper X-ray

2012. 16 different-colored pages, hand sewn, smaller than A.

This art zine is printed in an edition of 31, and made using a RISOGRAPH machine (kind of like mechanical screen-printing) Paper X-ray is a quest to examine my body (teeth, hands) and other things (trees, typewritters) through a process of pencil-rubbing on paper. The drawings in here are, literally, paper x-rays.

Made during a lovely workshop at the Kotti Shop.

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Seen not heard

This was a zine done by Melanie Gauthier. In Melanie’s own words this is a zine zine, which means she interviewed the people who did zines as these folks never got the credit for what they did. There is a straight edge, vegan, and animal rights focus to the zine.

Melanie inteviewed:
– Al Quint about Suburban Voice
– Sam McPheeters about Dear Jesus
– Kent McClard about No Answers
– Daisy Rooks of Not Even zine from Bethesda with the “Chicks Up Front posse” concept
– Chrissy and Stacey of Budget zine out of Simi Valley, california;
– Eric about Cloudbreak from Springfield, Missouri
– Jhon of Cunchface from Akron, Ohio
– Gabe about Good ‘n’ Plenty from Illinois
– Dave Mandel about Indecision from Woodland Hills, California
– Fred Hammer about It’s Alive from Oxnard
– John about Reality Control of Carpenteria, california

In addition there was some great photo spreads, some vegan recipes, and a column on being straight edge and having animal rights ethics.


Complicating Veganism: Creating a more intersectional vegan movement

Complicating Veganism is a compilation zine edited by Nicole Davis and Clementine Morrigan. Eleven contributors complicate veganism by considering it in conjunction with disordered eating, mental health, trauma, sexual violence, autism, intersectionality, capitalism, colonialism, food justice, fat activism, sexual orientation and other topics. The goal of this zine is to undermine the single-issue oriented approach that much vegan activism takes, to call into question oppressive tactics that vegan activism uses and to open up the conversation about veganism in a way that is complex, intersectional and focused on justice. We are also seeking submissions for a second issue to continue the conversation.

“We need to address the fact that the figures at the frontline of the vegan movement are white, able-bodied, cisgender, thin and fit, wealthy settlers.” – Nicole Davis

“Veganism, which gave me a sense of safety and control, a sense of distance from violence, also was a way of coping.” – Clementine Morrigan


seawitch #3

Quarter-size, 32 pages, text-heavy. This zine is about ptsd and trying to do polyamory while having ptsd. It’s about tarot, being gender-nonconforming and being a survivor who believes in nonviolence. It’s about veganism, accessibility and building alliances between people who have non-normative relationships to substance use. This zine was written while struggling with and trying to make sense of a lot of things.

“ethically i believe in polyamory. i know my partner does not belong to me. i know that they have the right to have desires and experiences outside of me. ideally it is what i want. it makes sense to me. but in my body and emotions, i feel horrible.”

“i am a gender-nonconforming femme. i use the pronouns she/her. i have a vulva. i also sometimes have a cock. when my cock is being stroked and sucked, i feel it. it is a part of me.”

“i do not want anyone to ever be assaulted ever again and that includes my rapist and the people who have violently assaulted me. i do not wish them the pain that they caused me.”


I’m not VEGAN, but this zine is! (And it’s Gluten-Free too!) Recipes, Smut, Poems & Thoughts

Yes, there are vegan recipes in this Zine. There are also two vegan erotic stories, a couple of poems and my thoughts about food and the vegan scene. For over 18’s only, due to the smutty stories.


Sticking Around #1

In “Sticking Around #1” I write about staying in the same town after graduating from college, and post-college life/ anxieties in general. I talk about trying to maintain friendships when people moveaway, entering the work force via a vegan cafe, and an anxiety dream (about oatmeal?!?)
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Wow, thanks so much for all this!!! You're awesome!
Look, deadline is dependent... the final due date of my inquiry is the 15th of September, however I will need any new information to be in it way before then. I think I'll leave a month for pure editing and writing of information, which means I'd want final new information submissions/interviews/surveys/research etc to be in by the 15th of August. So we'll say mid-August is the due date for argument's sake.
Thanks so much again for all that info - you're the best!
Grace x
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graciekay wrote: Sat May 20, 2017 2:59 am Wow, thanks so much for all this!!! You're awesome!
Look, deadline is dependent... the final due date of my inquiry is the 15th of September, however I will need any new information to be in it way before then. I think I'll leave a month for pure editing and writing of information, which means I'd want final new information submissions/interviews/surveys/research etc to be in by the 15th of August. So we'll say mid-August is the due date for argument's sake.
Thanks so much again for all that info - you're the best!
Grace x
Makes sense, no problemo, I'll include a quote of both so people understand sooner the better but 15th is last feasible chance. It's really important/interesting subject matter, goodluck! :)
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