Overweight and obesity is one of the things that most concern parents today with regard to feeding their children. The key is to modify family habits, get them to eat a balanced diet (not force them to diet, but eat healthy) and above all, exercise. Less television and poor food and more fruit and outdoor life.
One way to determine if the child's weight is healthy with respect to his height and age is through an index known as BMI (body mass index). A relationship between the weight, height and age of the child can assess the degree of risk of obesity. We bring you today one BMI calculator for children and teenagers from 2 to 19 years old.
It should be clarified that the body mass index is an indicative reference that should not be taken as a diagnosis, but can be considered as a sign of risk of excess weight.
In the other sense, for children who eat little, it can also be interesting to measure BMI since sometimes we see children "very thin" but we must take into account the weight in relation to their height. As in the case of my daughters, they are girls whose BMI is low because they are small-sized girls, but not because they have a low weight problem.
The BMI is very simple to calculate. You must access this link from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and enter the date of birth, date of measurement, height and weight of the child. The button is given and the result is obtained.
The page is in English but it is easy to interpret (or you can always use the Google translator). The results determine the BMI and percentile of the child, if he is underweight, normal, overweight or obese. Explain what BMI means and what should be done according to the results obtained by offering advice on healthy habits.
