Regularly eating cereal for breakfast is tied to healthy weight for kids, according to a new study that endorses making breakfast cereal accessible to low-income kids to help fight childhood obesity ...

BMI for kids: What is it and why bother with BMI percentiles. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number calculated from a child's weight and height (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared).

Using standing-based desks, as opposed to traditional sit-down desks, in classrooms for 2 consecutive years resulted in a significant decrease in BMI percentile, according to data published in the ...

Regularly eating cereal for breakfast is tied to healthy weight for kids, according to a new study that endorses making breakfast cereal accessible to low-income kids to help fight childhood obesity.

Overweight: 85th percentile to the 95th percentile; Obese: 95th percentile or higher; For example, a 6-year-old boy with a 75th percentile BMI has a higher BMI than 75 out of 100 6-year-old boys ...

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 ...

Body mass index or BMI is a measure of weight compared to your height. And it's figured out the same way for adults and children, but for adults, the normal range of BMI is the same for all adults.

To investigate the relationship of reporting accuracy in 24-h dietary recalls to child-respondent characteristics—cognitive ability, social desirability, body mass index (BMI) percentile and ...