Are boys metabolism faster than girls?

Answer 1

Having visited numerous website that deal with puberty I've read on almost all of them that, "Girls start puberty earlier than boys and go through the process faster." Apparently on average a girl finshes puberty after approximately 4 years while on average a boy takes 6 years to complete puberty. Unfortunately not one site that I've found has offered any reason as to why girls start puberty earlier than boys. So, while accepting the overwhelming opinion (and evidence) that girls do indeed start puberty earlier than boys I still have no convincing explanation as to why this should be the case. According to the "Understanding Puberty" website girls on average start puberty between the ages of 8 and 13 while on average boys usually start puberty between 10 and 15. Perhaps the answer lies in our early ancestory? Perhaps, when we first roamed the Earth as ape like creatures it may have been a biological imperative to enable females to mature and give birth to offspring as early as possible (in order to carry on the species) before they fell prey to illness or a predator. Men on the other hand do not actually bear children so perhaps evolution gave them more time to grow physically and mentally before the onset of puberty? Perhaps by taking longer to mature it gave evolution and natural selection more opportunity to weed out less able male specimens to prevent them passing on inferior genetic traits? I might well be completely wrong but at least I am bothering to propose a theory, which seems to be more than many other people are prepared to do.

Answer 2

The answer is yes, but it really depends. If a girl has been running for a longer period of time than a boy, she can eat what ever she wants and never really worry about dieting. On the other hand the boy would probably not even worry because of the way he's body fat is stored. The girls fat is stored on the hips, but if they are severely over weight it stores in the whole body. Guys are known to be stronger and faster than girls, and girls are known to be more flexible and athletic than boys, but that is not always true. When I say athletics, I mean gymnastics. I hope this answered your question. But don't really count on my answer because I'm only an eleven year old, who knows very little about the world she/we live(s) in.