Use this calculator to determine whether a child is at a healthy weight for his/her height, age and sex. The BMI-percentile-for-age calculator automatically adjusts for differences in height, age and ...

A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

Medically reviewed by Suzanne Fisher, RD Calculating your body mass index (BMI) involves using a simple formula with your ...

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.

The role of both maternal and paternal BMI on how the child’s brain responds to food cues has never been investigated The current study examined the relationship between paternal and maternal ...

Obesity experts have thrown aside their BMI charts as they reveal it is possible ... Some 29 per cent of adults and one in ten children are obese by the time they start secondary school, according ...

The children of obese mothers, but not obese fathers, were less able to self-regulate food consumption.