Women 10 times more likely to worry about their weight

A survey released today reveals that women are up to 10 times more likely to anxious about their body image than men. The survey, carried out by researchers at Glasgow University and published in the Journal of Epidemiology, reveals a vast gender gap between body image. Despite more men being overweight, women were 10 times more likely to think that they were too heavy, despite many being within the healthy parameters for height and weight. The study questioned more than 1,500 managers at a large bank, and 2,000 clerical workers, and academics at an unnamed university. At the university, women were three times more likely to consider themselves overweight, rising to 10 times more likely at the bank. The research reveals that anxiety over weight is not just confined to teenage or young women, but professionals too, raising concerns and a possible link in the rise in eating disorders. Despite this, however, obesity levels continue to rise with one in five adults in England considered dangerously overweight.