New research shows that women are far more likely than men to try different diet plans. Women are also more likely to try a low-fat or a low-carbohydrate diet.

Diet Tried (Women / Men)

• Weight Watchers ( 7 percent compared to 1 percent)
• Low-fat diets (19 percent and 8 percent)
• Low-carbohydrate diets (16 percent and 7 percent)
• Vegetarian diets (4 percent and 0 percent).
• 80 percent of men and 66 percent women reported never having tried a diet.

It seems many women have a strong belief in the concept of dieting and an increased awareness of what they eat. Does this mean that college men don’t care about nutrition much? Or has the “dieting” bandwagon passed them by?

Most women seemed to think they needed to lose weight. Here is some more trivia:

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