If you had to guess who is more obese – men or women – which would you say? We’re not talking about the heaviest people, but the percentage of each group that is considered overweight or obese.
Think about different contexts where healthy weight loss and gain are noticeable. Do you see more men or women walking around with extra weight around their midsections? Which gender do you notice eating right at a restaurant instead of splurging? Who is represented more at your gym?
We all have different experiences and are a part of different environments, so we would probably come to different conclusions about which sex is better at healthy diets.
The facts from the CDC are as follows. More women than men are accounted for as being at healthy weights and having healthy BMIs, and there are more men than women who have overweight or obese statuses.
Congratulations to the women for knowing how to eat healthy and implementing all the other lifestyle changes that help them achieve healthy weight loss and keep it off.
We could talk about the reasons these results might be skewed, like the fact that it is a snapshot of a moment in time and does not guarantee that people will stay at healthy weights for the rest of their lives.
The point is that both men and women should be looking at what they can do to start eating right so that, in the future, we don’t even have to talk about obesity and unhealthy weight.
Tags: healthy diets, healthy weight loss
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