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 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 ...

For decades, parents have viewed their child’s spot on the growth chart as if it were a grade on a test. But how useful are these diagrams, really, in communicating the state of your child’s health?

To elaborate Mexican growth charts based on international methodology. Data were obtained from the Mexican National Health Survey. The survey was stratified and probabilistic representative of all the ...