BODY MASS INDEX in children (ages 2-12) and in adolescents (ages 13-18) that is grossly above the recommended cut-off for a specific age and sex. For infants less than 2 years of age, obesity is determined based on standard weight-for-length percentile measures.
    

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Mrs. Everitt, and her son.

Ann Groves : of Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire.

Wonderful phenomena of nature : a female child, (a twin,) 11 years of age, 4 feet 2 inches in height, and weighs one hundred pounds ...

Childhood obesity : a plan for action.

Obesity in children and young people : a crisis in public health / edited by T Lobstein, L Baur and R Uauy for the IASO International Obesity Taskforce.

Childhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic / Laura Dawes.

A child of the name of Wybrants was exhibited in London, in 1806, who at four months old, was saiod to weigh 39 pounds ...

In Paris they shew an infant Hercules, who is immensely fat.

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Childhood obesity : a plan for action.

Obesity in children and young people : a crisis in public health / edited by T Lobstein, L Baur and R Uauy for the IASO International Obesity Taskforce.

Childhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic / Laura Dawes.

A child of the name of Wybrants was exhibited in London, in 1806, who at four months old, was saiod to weigh 39 pounds ...

In Paris they shew an infant Hercules, who is immensely fat.