KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rolled out changes to growth charts adding categories for children and adolescents with severe obesity. The charts were based ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Last year, the CDC released new BMI-for-age growth charts for children. The CDC defines severe obesity as a BMI ...

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 ...

A friend of mine said she has a dumb obesity-related question for me: How can 15 percent of kids be above the 95th percentile? Let me explain. My friend’s girls -- like most kids nowadays -- are ...

U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the ...

BMI For Adults. Flash Player 9 is required. You may like BMI should be replaced, experts argue — here's what the alternative could be Extreme thinness: Scientists are investigating why some people ...

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How is BMI used with children and teens? Girls and boys develop differently and have different amounts of body fat at different ages, so a child's age is taken into consideration when looking at their ...