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33% of internet users look online for information about how to lose weight or how to control their weight<\/h3>\n\n

One-third of internet users, or 24% of adults, has looked for weight-loss or weight-control information on the internet. This is the first survey in which the Pew Internet Project has asked this question, so there is no comparative data for previous years.<\/p>\n\n

Certain demographic groups are significantly more likely than their counterparts to search for information about weight loss: online women, younger online adults, and college-educated internet users. <\/p>\n\n

Women are nearly twice as likely as men to say they have looked online for weight control tips: 42% of online women vs. 24% of online men.<\/p>\n\n

Younger internet users (ages 18-49) are more likely than older ones (age 50+) to look for weight-control information, and 50-64 year olds are more likely than internet users age 65 and older to look for this information online. Some 37% of 18-29 year-old internet users and 38% of 30-49 year-old internet users look for information about controlling their weight, compared with 31% of 50-64 year-olds and just 13% of wired seniors.<\/p>\n\n

Adults who have attended college are more likely than those with less education to look for fitness and weight-control information. Nearly two in five college graduates and 37% of adults with some college education have looked for information about weight control, while about a quarter of those with high school diplomas or less education look online for this type of information.<\/p>\n\n

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