Screenings can actually cause more harm than good, activists say I remember opening the envelope holding my daughters’ report cards from their New York City elementary school a few years ago and ...

The value of routine body mass index (BMI) screening in schools has been a topic of ongoing controversy. An expert Roundtable Discussion in the current issue of Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed ...

The beginning was in 2003. Laws requiring school systems to evaluate children using body-mass index (BMI) instruments—a common approach for grouping people based on height and weight—have passed 29 ...

Parents of elementary school children who received body mass index (BMI) screening results together with educational material were significantly more likely to express their intent to change at least ...

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Parents are more likely to change their child’s lifestyle if schools offer educational materials alongside body mass index screening results, a new study shows. Some parents in the study received only ...

Newswise — As part of its mission of educating and inspiring families to make healthy lifestyle choices, Penn State Hershey PRO Wellness Center has developed and tested a body mass index (BMI) ...

Using body mass index (BMI) screening alone may often fail to identify preschoolers with excess stomach fat, reveals a new study. Measuring the body mass index (BMI) of younger children may often fail ...

What is a healthy weight? A definitive answer to this seemingly innocent question continues to evade the medical community. In 1832, Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet introduced the concept of ...

When assessing whether preschoolers are overweight, health professionals should use other measures such as waist-to-height ratio in addition to the Body Mass Index (BMI). A study published in the ...