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)
