What is a BMI percentile and how is it interpreted? How is BMI used with children and teens? Is BMI interpreted the same way for children and teens as it is for adults? Why can't healthy weight ranges be provided for children and teens? How can I tell if my child is overweight or has obesity? Can I determine if my child or teen has obesity by using an adult BMI calculator?
My two children have the same BMI values, but one is considered to have obesity and the other is not. Why is that? What are the health consequences of obesity during childhood? Top of Page. References 1 Garrow, J. To receive email updates about this topic, enter your email address.
Email Address. What's this? Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. Related Topics. Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving the CDC website. According to KidsHealth, puberty plays in important role in the growth of an adolescent boy. Once puberty begins, the change from a child to adult can take several years. Heredity plays a central factor in developing a boy's height and weight.
A boy's race, ethnicity or nationality also will assist in deciding his stature. Lastly, eating habits contribute to a boy's height and weight. Tara Thackeray. Based in Boulder City, Nev. Growth Charts. Video of the Day. Your child does not have to take part, but every child who's measured is contributing to the national picture about how children are growing. The more children who take part, the clearer that picture will be. The information collected helps your local NHS and local council plan and provide better health services for the children in your area.
In other areas, parents will need to contact their local council to find out their child's measurements. The letter sent by your local provider before the measurements take place will explain how you'll be informed about your child's results. If you already know your child's height and weight and want to know if they're a healthy weight for their age, height and sex, you can check using the healthy weight calculator.
It can be used by everyone in your family. If you're concerned that your child might be underweight or above a healthy weight, speak to a GP, school nurse or health visitor, who can offer advice and support. The body mass index BMI measure used by healthcare professionals is a good way of finding out whether a child is a healthy weight. By comparing your child's weight with their age, height and sex, we can tell whether they're growing as expected.
This is something you may have done when your child was a baby using the growth charts in the Personal Child Health Record red book. About 1 in 5 children in reception are overweight or very overweight, rising to 1 in 3 in year 6. Because the number of overweight children has gradually increased, we've slowly become used to it. A more slender build might suggest being underweight even if the child is perfectly healthy.
Genetics is a huge factor in how weight is determined. Metabolism is directly related to genetics. If both parents have a slower metabolism then the child will most likely have a slower metabolism. If both parents have a fast metabolism, the child will most likely have fast one.
If one parent has a slow and the other a fast metabolism, the child has a chance to have either a slow or a fast metabolism. Gender does not play a role in the speed of your metabolism.
Both boys and girls can have either a slow or fast metabolism. That is due to the genetics. Typically, children have faster metabolisms than adults. Certain metabolic disorders can cause a person to either become overweight or become underweight.
More often than not, newborns are screened for many of these metabolic disorders at birth. Discovering these disorders as early as possible is crucial to help prevent further health problems and even death. Genetic disorders can also play a role in weight. Bardet-Biedl syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes many problems for a person. One of those problems is abnormal weight gains that usually starts in childhood and continues on into adult life.
Often times, kids with down syndrome also weigh more. This is partly because of the genetic disorder, but also because food tends to be used to soothe the upset child. Believe it or not, the lifestyle you live can and will affect your children as they grow up. Your children follow what you do and mimic how you act.
After all, you are their parent—you are their biggest role model.
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