Org Library Menu Beef. Although Americans report making trade-offs for meat and lunch meat, most Traders do make room in their dietary plans for including, rather than substituting, meats for other foods. Eliminating meat and lunch meat is not a popular option for Traders. Men are more likely than women to be Non-Traders of both meat and lunch meat.
Women are more likely to practice all types of trade-offs than their male counterparts.
Still, limiting the frequency of eating both meat and lunch meat is the primary trading mechanism to balance one's diet, regardless of sex. Traders of meat are predominantly woman on some type of diet. Non-traders of meat are evenly split among younger men and women who are not on a diet and live in larger households. Traders of lunch meat are predominantly woman likely to be on some type of diet. The households typically do not have children.