Posted on 03/20/2008 1:45:51 PM PDT by ShadowDancer
Battle Of The Sexes Includes Food Choice
Men Eat More Meat, Frozen Foods; Women Choose Veggies
POSTED: 8:43 am EDT March 20, 2008
ATLANTA -- 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, brussel 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.
Men are more likely to eat meat, meat and more meat.
Not really, it’s totally the opposite in this house.
Ha, my wife refuses to eat pork, expect on Wed night when I cook Italian. My son would eat apples and nothing else if we let him, he eats 5-6 a day, when I go into their bedroom to open the curtains in the AM there will be 2-3 apple cores there.
So, if I like a good rare hamburger with a fried egg on top, preferring a generous serving of roasted asparagus to french fries, and follow it up with a big scoop of frozen yoghurt topped with fresh rasberries-
-What does that make me?
Full?
We eat Ezekiel bread, Grape Nuts cereal, asparagus, salad with olive oil and vinegar, sweet potatoes, Marmite, Triscuits, flax seed sprinkled on veggies, dark chocolate, and lots of mozarella cheese. Those are some of our wierder, healthier choices. The wife likes them all except for Marmite. That’s just me.
I dunno but I don't want to use the bathroom after you do!
I stop reading when I see “Battle of the Sexes” ...
That’s my sign that the author is an idiot.
Thanks for your scintillating commentary.
LOL!!
It's just for sure that whatever follows is crap.
You aren’t by chance the inventor of Cliffs Notes are you?
I'll volunteer to interview all the hotties.
Male vegetarians are simply fags.
LOL. Exactly.
"Honey, what do you want me to make tonight for dinner, Steak or ribs?"
ROTFL
They forgot that on Mars they have at least two refrigerators. One for the beer. One for everything else.
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