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Health Parenting GuideToddler MilestonesChild Development How Your Preschooler GrowsSchool-Age ChildrenThe Tween YearsTeens and Young AdultsBehavior DisciplineChild SafetyHealthy Habits View Full Guide Kids BMI Calculator for ParentsThe Kids BMI Calculator computes your child s body mass index (BMI). You ll learn whether your child s BMI falls into an underweight, healthy weight, overweight, or obese range. And, you ll better understand how your child s weight and body fat contribute to his current and future health.
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Height ft in Weight lbs Calculate Note: BMI is only one data point in determining healthy weight, here s more on What Parents Should Know About Kids BMI. SourcesUpdate HistoryShareSOURCES:
CDC: “About BMI for Children and Teens,” “Overweight and Obesity: Health Consequences,” “Tips for Parents – Ideas to Help Children Maintain a Healthy Weight.”
Pediatrics. “Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity,” “The Utility of Body Mass Index as a Measure of Body Fatness in Children and Adolescents: Differences by Race and Gender,” “The Validity of BMI as an Indicator of Body Fatness and Risk Among Children,” “Expert committee recommendations regarding the prevention, assessment, and treatment of child and adolescent overweight and obesity: summary report,” “Clinical Report—Identification and Management of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents,” “Associations Between Overweight and Obesity With Bullying Behaviors in School-Aged Children.”
Dan Kirschenbaum, PhD, ABPP, vice president of clinical services, Wellspring - a Division of CRC Health; director, Center for Behavioral Medicine Sport Psychology; professor of psychiatry behavioral sciences, Northwestern University Medical School.
American Academy of Pediatrics: Pediatric Nutrition Handbook, “Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Overweight and Obesity,” “The Role of the Pediatrician in Primary Prevention of Obesity,” “A Parent’s Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Road Map to Health,” “What’s Happening to My Body?” “Ages and Stages of Adolescence.”
Ellyn Satter Institute: “Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding.”
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: “Obesity in Children and Teens.”
American Heart Association: “Physical Activity and Children.”
Clinical Pediatrics. “Parents’ Healthy Weight Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Obesity Counseling in Preschoolers: Pediatricians Matter.”
Healthy Children.org: “Physical Development of School-Aged Children.”
USDA: “Food Security in the United States.”
KidsHealth: “Failure to Thrive.”
Weight Control Information Network: “Helping Your Child Who is Overweight.”
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “Predicting overweight and obesity in adulthood from body mass index values in childhood and adolescence.”
American Council for Drug Education: “Signs and Symptoms of Drug Use.”
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: “Teens: Alcohol and Other Drugs,” “The Depressed Child.”
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “Five-year obesity incidence in the transition period between adolescence and adulthood: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.”
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