STUDYS SHOW MEN LOVE ASPARUGUS AND WOMEN EAT MORE HAMBURGERS

A telephone survey of 14,000 Americans confirmes that most men eat more meat than women, and women eat more fruits and vegetables.

But here's where the study got interesting,..did you know that 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 may help health educators better target public health messages about healthy eating.