GenQ - For the not so straight individual

As reported earlier this year on GenerationQ.net gay men are more prone to eating disorders than their heterosexual counterparts.

Now a new study confirms gay men have a higher risk than heterosexual men for eating disorders, U.S. researchers said in a new study.
The study, conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, looked at 516 New York City residents -- 126 straight men and the rest bisexual men and women -- the university said in a release.

More than 15 percent of gay or bisexual men had at some time suffered anorexia, bulimia or binge-eating disorder, or at least certain symptoms of those disorders, compared with less than 5 percent of heterosexual men.

The report said sexual orientation did not seem to influence the risk of eating disorder symptoms among women. Less than 10 percent of lesbian and bisexual women and 8 percent of heterosexual women had ever reported having symptoms of an eating disorder.