>>>BS, we need to treat child obesity as another form of child abuse.
Not by the CDC’s Body Mass Index.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/
Look at the calculator. No field inputs for body type or sex.
I’ve read that they recently determined that measuring BMI is only effective for the 25-55 age group, and even then it doesn’t account various issues, such as why a muscular athlete would be considered obese by its standards.
While there are other measuring methods out there such as the hip to waist ratio(the method they say is best for older folks) there really is nothing outside of a doctor’s visit as none of these measuring tests will consider present health as well.