[WATCH]: Kids Body Mass Index

www.kidsoverweight.com Kids Body Mass Index is an accurate indicator to determine if your child is obese based on statistics in the Journal of Pediatrics. The Journal of Pediatrics has found extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 7.3 percent of boys, 5.5 percent of girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys and 12 percent of black teenage girls now classified as extremely obese. This is the first study to provide a snapshot of the prevalence of extreme obesity in a contemporary study of children ages 2 - 19 years from a large racially and ethnically diverse population using the recent 2009 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extreme obesity definition. You can find out more information in The

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