In the study to investigate the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a state-based telephone
survey of adults > or =18 years of age (N = 184,450) conducted in
the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in 2000, showed that the prevalence of trying to lose weight was 46% (women) and 33% (men). Women reported trying to lose weight at a lower BMI than did men; 60% of overweight women were trying to lose weight,
but men did not reach this level until they were obese. Adults who had a
routine physician checkup in the previous year and reported medical
advice to lose weight vs. checkup and no medical advice to lose weight had a higher prevalence of trying to lose weight (81% women and 77% men vs. 41% women and 28% men, respectively). The odds of trying to lose weight increased as years of education increased. Among respondents who were trying to lose weight, approximately 19% of women and 22% of men reported using fewer calories and > or =150 min/wk leisure-time physical activity(1).
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(1) " Diet and physical activity behaviors among Americans trying to lose weight: 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System" by Bish CL, Blanck HM, Serdula MK, Marcus M, Kohl HW 3rd, Khan LK.
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