A longitudinal study of eating behaviours in childhood and later eating disorder behaviours and diagnoses.
Herle, M., Stavola, B., Hübel, C., Abdulkadir, M., Ferreira, D., Loos, R., . . . Micali, N. (2020). The British Journal of Psychiatry, 216(2), 113-119. doi:10.1192/bjp.2019.174
This longitudinal study demonstrates that there may be early clues as to who develops eating disorders in adolescence or adulthood. Children with overeating were more prone to developing binge eating disorder, girls who persistently underrate and fussy eaters of both genders were more likely to develop anorexia nervosa.