From the Journal of Weight problems:

…. 10-year weight acquire is considerably larger in US girls in comparison with males. On common (±SE), girls gained 5.4 ± 0.3 kg and 9.2 ± 0.4 % of their preliminary weight over the earlier 10 years, whereas males gained 2.6 ± 0.2 kg and three.8 ± 0.3 % of their preliminary weight. on the whole, in comparison with US males, girls gained about twice as a lot weight (kg) and a pair of.4 instances extra weight expressed as a