[shadha]

Diet survey: Men eat meat, women eat veggies

ATLANTA , Georgia (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 American 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 U.S. 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.

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[Variable]

Alfalfa sprouts are dangerous? That seriously sucks.

[shadha]

When I was reading the article I was like- ha! I don't even know what those are so I don't have to worry about that ....come to find out, I do know what they are I just didn't know the name for them. I eat them too.


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[wheelworks]

I rarely eat meat. Should I be?

[Rambo]

i am on a vegetarian diet for the last month and believe me i feel much better.

[IbnMardhiyah]

I'm an unrepentant, voracious carnivore and if anyone tries to take my meat away I'll go ballistic and probably end up eating them instead.

[wheelworks]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

I'm an unrepentant, voracious carnivore and if anyone tries to take my meat away I'll go ballistic and probably end up eating them instead.

Blood and guts and all?

[TrentReznor858]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

I'm an unrepentant, voracious carnivore and if anyone tries to take my meat away I'll go ballistic and probably end up eating them instead.

Actually you arent. The human digestive tract is not designed to process meat, only things like nuts and veggies and fruits. Unfortunately, meat is an addicting part of everyone's diet, mine included. I do not feel full or satisfied without eating some sort of meat product. The large amounts of intestinal, colon, and prostate cancer is attributed in part to consuming large amounts of meat products.

[IbnMardhiyah]

Originally Posted by TrentReznor858

Actually you arent. The human digestive tract is not designed to process meat, only things like nuts and veggies and fruits. Unfortunately, meat is an addicting part of everyone's diet, mine included. I do not feel full or satisfied without eating some sort of meat product. The large amounts of intestinal, colon, and prostate cancer is attributed in part to consuming large amounts of meat products.

Actually, I am. God designed my body to process a lot of meat, thanks.

And so, I eat a hella lotta meat.

End of story.

[TrentReznor858]

Originally Posted by IbnMardhiyah

Actually, I am. God designed my body to process a lot of meat, thanks.

And so, I eat a hella lotta meat.

End of story.

Because you were there during the design process right? Of course all the cancer people get from their meat diets, thats a load of crap of course!!! Ibn and his self righteous crap

[ChotooMotoo]

so does this mean that if a plane crashed in the middle of nowhere and you had nothing to eat for days, men would eat the women?

[Ilikemyscarf]

Originally Posted by ChotooMotoo

so does this mean that if a plane crashed in the middle of nowhere and you had nothing to eat for days, men would eat the women?

Hahahahahhhaahahahhahaha.

I don't like meat.

[ShotgunMessiah]

I would never eat frozen, precooked meat. Like hot pockets or frozen burgers. The only fast food I eat anymore is Five Guys, don't know how wide spread they are but they don't ever freeze their burgers. And ugh they are just the ambrosia of burgers.

Actually, I guess I have to wonder about my man card. All the womanly foods are the ones I get cised for most often. I mean... Frozen pizza? Disgusting.

[TrentReznor858]

Originally Posted by ShotgunMessiah

I would never eat frozen, precooked meat. Like hot pockets or frozen burgers. The only fast food I eat anymore is Five Guys, don't know how wide spread they are but they don't ever freeze their burgers. And ugh they are just the ambrosia of burgers.

Actually, I guess I have to wonder about my man card. All the womanly foods are the ones I get cised for most often. I mean... Frozen pizza? Disgusting.

Agreed. I love drinking those Naked Juice drinks and bolthouse farms juices, and I drink a ton of water, but I eat fast food quite often

[sally]

i read this other diet survey, and it said the sky is blue