Anonymous wrote:They say if s child is heavy by age 10 her body is predisposed to bring heavy. Her fat cells will be defined. There has to be a way of telling your child to watch it without giving them a complex,

I'm sur a 10 yo will grow a lot non fat cells too until adulthood, assuming what you said was based on science nit fiction.

They say if s child is heavy by age 10 her body is predisposed to bring heavy. Her fat cells will be defined. There has to be a way of telling your child to watch it without giving them a complex,

Please don't use BMI. It's horrible for kids. Says my 8 year old is obese. He's 100% for height and 95% for weight and nowhere near pudgy. If I change his age from 8 to 11 for BMI calculator, it said he's perfectly in the middle.

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BMI is actually an excellent way to evaluate children for obesity. People are just bad at reading graphs. For a nine year old, 85 lbs is 93rd% and 4'6.5" is 72%. That's from a direct calculator.

BMI is scientific and statistical nonsense -- especially for children, who do not grow evenly and on schedule.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439

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Anonymous wrote:She weighs 85 lbs and is 4'6 1/2

So she's about 90% for weight and 90% for height.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

No, I don't have her exact percentiles in front of me, but her weight percentile was over 20 points more than her height . Her doctor told me she was overweight.

You can look the percentiles up yourself.

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set2clinical/cj41c072.pdf

Yes, the chart shows hat she is height weight proportionate - I would freak out if my doc flagged that as overweight. I did not do the B!I calculation though. Sometimes those are quite different. I

BMI is 20.5. That's 92nd percentile for a 9 year old girl, or significantly overweight.

If a child's height and weight percentiles are the same, but the BMI is "significantly overweight", then that just demonstrates that BMI is a bad indicator of overweight in children.

BMI is actually an excellent way to evaluate children for obesity. People are just bad at reading graphs. For a nine year old, 85 lbs is 93rd% and 4'6.5" is 72%. That's from a direct calculator.

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Anonymous wrote:She weighs 85 lbs and is 4'6 1/2

So she's about 90% for weight and 90% for height.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

No, I don't have her exact percentiles in front of me, but her weight percentile was over 20 points more than her height . Her doctor told me she was overweight.

You can look the percentiles up yourself.

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set2clinical/cj41c072.pdf

Yes, the chart shows hat she is height weight proportionate - I would freak out if my doc flagged that as overweight. I did not do the B!I calculation though. Sometimes those are quite different. I

BMI is 20.5. That's 92nd percentile for a 9 year old girl, or significantly overweight.

If a child's height and weight percentiles are the same, but the BMI is "significantly overweight", then that just demonstrates that BMI is a bad indicator of overweight in children.

Too many responses to read so maybe this was said, but ditch the granola bar at lunch. She needs fruit and/or veggie at every meal. No flavored water. She needs to drink plain water and learn to deal with it. Lots of flavored water have carbs in it even is zero calories. Make sure her grains are whole grains/have fiber. Fruit/veggie smoothie with Greek yogurt are a good go to. Crudité. Dessert in moderation a few times a week.

I am a woman who has battled all of my life with my weight. My mom had me in WW by age 10. If I wanted to perm my hair (80s kid here) I had to lose 5 pounds first. My mother never ever taught me the right attitude towards food and I have paid for it for a loooong time. At 43 coming to terms with it now. Most important thing is to have open, nonjudgmental discussion with DD about what healthy eating looks like, why it is important, and portion control. Never put your own weight down, never make her success conditional on her weight. It comes down to protecting our bodies from diabetes and heart disease and being the strongest, fittest women we can be. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:She weighs 85 lbs and is 4'6 1/2

So she's about 90% for weight and 90% for height.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

No, I don't have her exact percentiles in front of me, but her weight percentile was over 20 points more than her height . Her doctor told me she was overweight.

You can look the percentiles up yourself.

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set2clinical/cj41c072.pdf

Yes, the chart shows hat she is height weight proportionate - I would freak out if my doc flagged that as overweight. I did not do the B!I calculation though. Sometimes those are quite different. I

BMI is 20.5. That's 92nd percentile for a 9 year old girl, or significantly overweight.