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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My new 13 year old girl is 5’3” and weighs 130 pounds. All her friends are similar. Fit healthy (none heavy) soccer girls.

Get your child to the ER immediately, OP. [/quote]

Actually your kid is overweight on the BMI scale, so let’s quit with the craziness.

Get your kid to the ER?  What is the ER going to do when a kid with no health problems walks into the ER?[/quote]

Incorrect. She just had a doctors appointment and she is not overweight.[/quote]

The information you provided gives a BMI of 23.

This puts your child in the 87th percentile, which means your child is overweight. An ideal BMI for your child's gender and age is between 15.3 and 22.6 .

Overweight is a point at which your child's weight is no longer healthy. This is serious. Although your child isn't yet overweight, work with your healthcare provider—and your child—to keep this from becoming a future problem. An overweight child may develop problems with self-esteem. And healthcare providers have found that overweight children are developing serious health problems such as diabetes early in life that do not develop in children of normal weight.

Overweight children tend to become overweight adults. Being overweight as an adult increases the risk for serious diseases such as stroke, heart attack, diabetes, arthritis, and some forms of cancer. So now is the time to teach your child healthy habits that will last a lifetime.

87th percentile[/quote]

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