Men And Women Have Different Eating Styles

Research Shows That Men Are Likely To Eat More Meat, While Women Eat More Vegetables

(AP)  If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Mars is a land where the refrigerators are stocked with meat and frozen pizza and Venus has a bounty of yogurt, fruits and vegetables, a new study suggests.

The study of eating habits of adults - called the most extensive of its kind - was a telephone survey of 14,000 Americans. It confirmed conventional wisdom that most men eat more meat than women, and women eat more fruits and vegetables.

But there were a few surprising exceptions: Men were much more likely to eat asparagus, brussels sprouts, peas and peanuts. They also were bigger consumers of frozen pizzas, frozen hamburgers and frozen Mexican dinners.

Women are more likely than men to eat eggs, yogurt and fresh hamburgers.

Men also showed a little more of an appetite for runny eggs and undercooked hamburgers - two foods that health experts say carry a higher chance of contamination that can make you sick.

Women were more likely than men to eat only one risky food, raw alfalfa sprouts, which in the past 15 years have been linked to outbreaks of food poisoning.

The survey was done in 10 states, a collaboration between state and federal health officials. The results were presented Wednesday by Dr. Beletshachew Shiferaw, an Oregon health official, at a meeting of infectious disease experts in Atlanta.

Shiferaw said she could not explain some of the odder findings, like why men eat more asparagus than women.

The survey may help health educators better target public health messages about healthy eating, she said.

Earlier this week at the same meeting, federal researchers reported that the proportion of foodborne illness outbreaks linked to leafy green vegetables has been growing.

The researchers analyzed 10,000 foodborne outbreaks from 1973 through 2006. Leafy greens were blamed for about 2 percent of outbreaks in the first 10 years, 4 percent in the second decade and 6 percent in the third.

That rise far outpaced the percentage increases in how many greens Americans ate during that time, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers.

[tmkgls]

Boy is this one way off target for my boyfriend and me. I like the asparagus, brussels sprouts, raw hamburger, eat many less eggs, will eat peas if I have to but not fresh, and very, very little yogurt which I have to force myself to eat even the whipped. My boyfriend and I both love pizza and my boyfriend will NEVER eat raw hamburger, will ear asparagus if I make it with sauce or gourmet style, never touches brussels sprouts, does like peas and whipped yogurt, doesn''t like frozen hamburgers, but does really like his meat - esp. beef. We both hate runny eggs. Therefore - my conclusion is that they need to interview many more people AFTER they have logged a month''s worth of what they eat. Memories aren''t as good as written down facts.

[neenga]

This is a no brainer. I wonder how much this "research" cost.

[extremophil]

My wife and I certainly have different eating styles. For example, she uses utensils.

[lilbambella]

slow news day??

[lilbambella]

so what does it mean that I love frozen pizza and my husband doesn''t? am I a man and he''s a woman? we both hate asparagus and runny eggs so maybe we''re aliens..... for the love of pete CBS stop dumbing down the articles...

[rushman71]

Women--Water
Men--Beer

Women--Salad
Men--Chips

Women--Grilled Chicken Breast
Men--Pizza, mashed potatoes, sausage, burgers--the works

Women--A thin slice of cake
Men--The whole danm thing!!!


No wonder they say men are from Mars, women are from Venus

[bobnjersey]

[It confirmed conventional wisdom that most men eat more meat than women, and women eat more fruits and vegetables.]

why?

[skinnyminny2]

I love vegetables and they are 80% of my diet. Eating mainly veggies has also kept my BMI at 17 and kept me from turning into a gigantic, average American lard-a$$.
However, if women typically eat more vegetables, I can only assume they''re smearing them with butter or something because their ever-expanding behinds don''t appear to reflect any more veggie-eating than the men.

[valentin73]

Men eat more meat than women

Men are dogs, right?

women stated this to begin with, makes sense?

So, leave us alone and give us our bones....

[naucoming4u]

However, if women typically eat more vegetables, I can only assume they''''re smearing them with butter or something because their ever-expanding behinds don''''t appear to reflect any more veggie-eating than the men.

Posted by skinnyminny2 at 05:46 PM : Mar 20, 2008
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LOL!

I was going to say something along those lines, but you have it nailed!

[naucoming4u]

Research, studies, and general common knowledge shows...

...that both men and women want to see actual NEWS from CBSnews.com!

[rohink-2009]

All the money spent on studies of things that are no brainers.

[michellem99-2009]

Studies...It is wasseful if they can''t learn something useful,benefitful,educational.