Men are more likely to underestimate their weight as compared to women

Men are more likely to guess they are thinner as compared to women, who believe they are overweight, a new survey suggests.

According to a new online project from The Guardian in the UK, men are more likely to underestimate their weight than women, the New York Daily News reported.

Men are more than twice as likely as women to think they are slimmer than they actually are.

As part of an interactive project, more than 300,000 people entered their height and weight into the website, which launched last month.

All participants were asked in advance to select which category they would fall into - underweight, healthy, overweight, obese, or morbidly obese.

Almost one in four men said they were at least one category thinner than they actually were.

For women, however, 27 percent thought they weighed more than they did, compared to just 12 percent of men.

Women "are more influenced by images of thin women shown across the media, are more worried and aware about their health, or could be tied to a myriad of other factors," the newspaper wrote.

Meanwhile, the men, by not being cognizant of their weight, are putting themselves at risk of a host of health problems, they wrote. (Source)