Men resist food temptations better than women

Men can resist food temptations better than women, a recent study shows.

Brain scans on 13 women and 10 men, who had fasted overnight, showed the differences in how the brains of men and women responded to the sight of their favorite foods.

"There is something going on in the female," Gene-Jack Wang, lead researcher in the study, said. "The signal is so much different.... Even though the women said they were less hungry when trying to inhibit their response to the food, their brains were still firing away in the regions that control the drive to eat."

While American men and women are approximately equally classified overweight (65.1 million men vs. 64.5 million women), far more women than men are considered obese (34.7 million women vs. 26.6 million men).

These stats are from 2001 — more recent statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 72 million American adults are obese. That number is up more than 10 million in the past five years!

Amazing. From 2001 to 2005, more than 10 million American adults went from "merely" overweight to OBESE!

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Obese Americans now outnumber those who are 'merely' overweight

The number of obese Americans now outweighs the number of merely overweight Americans, according to recent government figures.

Over 34 percent of Americans, or over 72 million, are obese, while 32.7% of us are classified as overweight.

Obesity and overweight are calculated using a formula called body mass index (BMI). BMI is equal to weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Someone with a BMI of 25 to 29 is classified as overweight. A person with a BMI of 30 to 40 is obese, and people with BMIs of 40 or more are morbidly obese.

You can discover your BMI status by inputting your height and weight into this calculator provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

To discover what Men's Health called the 20 worst foods in America, check out these pages on MSNBC. You'll be surprised at the whopping number of calories and grams of fat in what may be some of your favorite restaurant and grocery store foods.

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