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  • Men and women differ on meat and a few veg

    Posted by Adrian on 27/03/2008 at 11:29 am

    Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/20/ndiet120.xml

    By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
    Last Updated: 2:53am GMT 20/03/2008

    The differences between the sexes extends to the dinner plate with men preferring meat and women opting for fruit and vegetables.

    Research has found that women are programmed to choose a healthier diet.

    Favourites such as duck, veal and ham are high on men’s menus and they are also more likely to eat shellfish such as shrimp and oysters.

    Women, on the other hand, are more likely to choose vegetables, especially carrots and tomatoes, and love strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and apples.

    Women also prefer dry foods, such as almonds and walnuts, and are more likely to consume eggs and yogurt compared with men.

    However, the study of more than 14,000 Americans found some exceptions to the rules.

    Women loved fresh burgers while men preferred frozen ones and men were significantly more likely to eat asparagus and Brussels sprouts than women.

    The researchers also looked at the risks men and women would take with foods that could cause food poisoning, including undercooked hamburgers, runny or undercooked eggs, raw oysters, unpasteurised milk, cheese made from unpasteurised milk and alfalfa sprouts.

    Men were significantly more likely to eat undercooked burgers and runny eggs while women were more likely to eat alfalfa sprouts.

    The research was presented at the 2008 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, in America.

    It is based on the most recent population survey of the Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet).

    Between May 2006 to April 2007, more than 14,000 Americans were surveyed on their eating habits, including high-risk foods for foodborne illness.

    Beletshachew Shiferaw, a lead researcher on the study, said: “There was such a variety of data we thought it would be interesting to see whether there were any gender differences.

    “To our knowledge, there have been studies in the literature on gender differences in eating habits, but nothing this extensive.”

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