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- Low-income women weigh more on average than those with high incomes
- Low-income men weigh less on average than those with high incomes
- Gender, income related to views on being obese, desire to lose weight
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ income has a significant connection to how much they weigh, but in totally different ways for men and women. For women, the lower the income, the higher their weight tends to be. For men, the reverse is true.
American men in the past decade have weighed, on average, 10 pounds more in households with earnings of $75,000 or more (200 pounds) than in households with earnings of less than $30,000 (190 pounds). Women in the high-income bracket weigh, on average, 12 pounds less than those in low-income households — 152 pounds versus 164 pounds, respectively.
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