SMH article: "The closer science looks, the more links it finds between lifestyle and long-term ailments...
A wide-ranging national health study of Australian women published last year found the average young woman puts on five kilograms over seven years while she is in her 20s, typically before she has even started having babies. AusDiab 2, a large study of patterns of diabetes in the community, found women and men put on an average 14 kilograms between age 25 and 50..."
W: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/living-ourselves-to-death/2006/08/13/1155407675077.html