Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Children and ...

The New Zealand Guidelines for Weight Management in Children and Young People (Ministry of Health and Clinical Trials Research Unit 2009b), developed for those aged 2–18 years, recommend the CDC gender-specific BMI-for-age growth charts for classifying overweight and obesity (> 85th and > 95th centile, respectively) (Kuczmarski et al 2000). ................
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