The bar chart illustrates the proportion of male and female residents of UK consuming five or more meals a day among seven age categories in 2006.
Overall, compared to females, more male citizens of UK ate five or more meals a day, as recommended by the World Health Organization, across all age categories. People aged from 55 to 64 in particular demonstarated a highest share of residents eating five or more meals a day.
It is noteworthy that most elderly citizens followed the standard set by the World Health Organization, the category aged from 55 to 64 had highest share of males eating proper amount of meals a day in 2006, at about 34%, followed closely by the age category of 65-74 (28%) and 75+ (25%). People in an age range of 45 to 54 and 35 to 44 had approximately similar amount of people eating five or more meals a day, amounting to about 27% and 23% respectively. Moreover, aproxiametely quarter (23%) of people aged from 25 to 34 and just over 15% of young adults aged from 19 to 24 ate healthy amount of meals a day.
Regarding female residents of UK, similarly to male citizens the biggest share of people who eat five or more meals a day was registered in age categories from 55 to 64 (33%) and from 65 to 74 (27%); this was followed by the oldest category of people of 75 or older at 25%. There was a narrow margin of 5% among the share of people eating 5 or more meals in following age ranges, namely, from 45 to 50 and from 35 to 44, both at around 23%; and from 25 to 34 at 20%. Meanwhile, the female residents aged from 19 to 24, eating a proper amount of meals a day, made up only 15% of the total female population in this age range.