A new study, published in JAMA Paediatrics, found young LGBTQ+ people are more likely to suffer from obesity and binge-eating disorders than heterosexual/cisgender youth.
The research, which involved 12,000 children (with the average age of 10) responding to a virtual questionnaire, found LGBTQ+ youth were 64% more at risk of being obese than heterosexual children.
In addition, this subset of children were 3.5 times as likely to suffer from a binge-eating disorder. The research suggested there was no link between LGBTQ+ status and other forms of eating disorder, with there appearing to be no link between gender or sexual identity and anorexia or bulimia.