can help you identify whether your child has obesity. BMI is a scale that defines obesity by taking body weight and height into account. Children whose weight puts them in the 95th percentile ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

Arkansas was the first state to start sending letters home flagging students' Body Mass Index. Twenty years later, they do not appear to have had any effect on childhood obesity.