Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Children and ...

For children aged two years and over who are plotted as being above the 99.6th centile on the growth chart, calculate body mass index using the Well Child weight–height to BMI conversion chart. A BMI above the 91st centile suggests that the child is overweight, whereas a child above the 98th centile is obese (Ministry of Health 2010a). ................
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