This calculator provides BMI and the corresponding BMI-for-age percentile on a CDC BMI-for-age growth chart. BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for ...

I have found a wonderful resource for families: a free BMI calculator (https://mygrowthcharts.com). A family account saves data, tracks growth online, uses standard World Health Organization (WHO) and ...

BMI has long been controversial among healthcare professionals—yet the obsession with how to calculate BMI persists. For these reasons as well as the influence of environmental, hormonal, and mental ...

Parents: Check your mailbox. You may soon find a letter from your school district with your child’s score — but it won’t be for anything he studied. It will be about his or her body. In what’s called ...

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Researchers compared three common methods for calculating expected body weight of adolescents with eating disorders and found that the body mass index percentile method is recommended for clinical and ...

We all know our nation has a problem with obesity. Unfortunately our children have not escaped being a part of this problem. Overweight children are likely to become overweight adults. There are many ...

According to the CDC, 1 in 5 kids between the ages 6 and 19 are overweight in the U.S. However, if you ask these kids' parents, you may get a different story. Dealing with obesity as a child can be ...