January 24, 2012
An Ontario study finds not only are obese teens the most likely to be bullied, but they are also more likely to be the bully. Researchers at Queen's University in Kingston studied more than 17-hundred students across the province in 2006 and 2007. The teens were asked questions about two forms of bullying -- physical and relational, which refers to excluding, ignoring or spreading rumours or lies about a person. The study found that obese girls and boys were more likely to be bullied and to be bullying perpetrators, than their peers.