The BMI-percentile-for-age calculator automatically adjusts for differences ... a Kids' Healthy Me learning tool, and links to Childhood Obesity resources on the Internet. If you suspect a medical ...

The situation is more complex in children, where the BMI threshold of obesity varies with age and sex. The charts below show how the BMI obesity threshold changes with age for boys and girls.

Experts say clinical obesity is more than a high BMI and instead is a disease in which excess body fat harms tissues, organs or doing daily activities.

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

Knowing your weight and height is enough to calculate your body mass index You've been using our fat calculator in ... Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said BMI was "still extremely ...

One of the biggest health problems among American children today is obesity. And the diabetes that follows obesity. And rates of obesity have almost tripled among children in many parts of the ...

A new Lancet Commission - made up of more than 50 experts from around the world - said that a 'radical overhaul' is needed in ...