Table 1. Distribution of obesity risk factors in two independent samples.

	Females		Males
	Study 1	Study 2	Study 1	Study 2
N*	15,809	10,159	3,513	11,365
Education (% of sample)
<12 years	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.2
12–15.9 years	39.2	22.8	25.7	19.9
16–19.9 years	55.5	69.0	56.1	64.1
≥20 years	4.8	7.8	17.4	15.8
Mother's reported adiposity (% of sample)
Lean	16.1	15.2	18.3	17.0
Average	39.7	40.3	44.8	42.0
Overweight	35.3	35.0	31.1	32.8
Very overweight	8.9	9.5	5.9	8.3
Father's reported adiposity (% of sample)
Lean	23.9	23.0	21.7	18.5
Average	46.1	43.8	49.2	46.6
Overweight	25.0	27.4	25.6	29.4
Very overweight	5.1	5.8	3.5	5.5
Meat consumption (% of sample)
0 servings/day	15.0	24.2	11.2	10.8
0.01 to 0.5 servings/day	56.8	56.2	51.4	53.5
0.51–1.0 servings/day	24.4	16.9	30.3	27.9
>1 serving/day	3.9	2.7	7.1	7.8
Fruit consumption (% of sample)
0 pieces/day	2.8	2.4	3.7	3.4
0.1 to 1.0 pieces/day	39.7	48.1	44.0	50.0
1.1 to 2.0 pieces/day	33.8	32.2	30.7	29.2
2.1 to 3.0 pieces/day	17.6	13.1	15.1	12.6
>3.0 pieces/day	6.1	4.2	6.5	4.7

*Parental adiposities were requested only during initial Study 2 recruitment and are therefore available for 2,721 women and 5,807 men in that study.