Psychiatric News (6/26) reports, “Three in ten young adults who identify as members of sexual minorities experience weight-based discrimination and may have a higher risk of disordered eating behaviors as a result,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from 1,257 sexual minority women and men aged 18 to 31 years…who had participated in the U.S. Growing Up Today Study as children and adolescents and responded to a follow-up questionnaire in 2013.” The findings were published online June 21 in a brief report in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Related Links:
— “Weight-Based Discrimination Linked to Disordered Eating in Sexual Minority Young Adults,” Psychiatric News, June 26, 2023