Willow was born coincidentally on birthday of our president, Barack Obama,
4 Aug 2014, so Willow is about five months old now.
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 08:52:47 -0800
From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [USMA:54556] Re: Metric BMI
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "U.S.
Metric Association" <[email protected]>
I don't know as you didn't give her age. See the curves by age in the
Wikipedia article. However, they are only percentiles not age. My
only
point is that BMI ranges don't apply to children under 20 years and a
different interpretation of the BMI is used. I would further caution
that any percentile that seems a little extreme should be interpreted by
a pediatrician not random people on the Internet
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FROM: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
TO: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
SENT: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 11:11 AM
SUBJECT: [USMA:54556] Re: Metric BMI
Well then if my granddaughter Willow does not fall
into the Normal range, please tell me which range she falls into. Thanks.
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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 05:14:58 -0800
From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:54554] Re: Metric BMI
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
BMI for children is interpreted quite differently, by percentile
comparison to their ages peers. The BMI ranges traditionally given
apply to adults, age 20 and up. See the Wikipedia article linked in
Stan's message.
The ranges would be a lot clearer if the index was always
presented with units attached (kg/m²) not as a "naked number."
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FROM: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
TO: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
SENT: Monday, January 5, 2015 12:40 AM
SUBJECT: [USMA:54553] Re: Metric BMI
My granddaughter Willow on 31 Dec 2014 falls into the
Normal weight range according to her BMI (Body Mass Index). See photo.
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Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 09:01:50 -0500
From: Stanislav Jakuba <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected][1]
Subject: [USMA:54548] Metric BMI
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Friends:
In case there was among your New Year 2015
wishes "to lose weight," and you think that the Body Mass Index (BMI)
is a recent invention, you may be surprised that it was proposed
already in 1835. In France by certain Mr. Quetelet, a distinguished
scientist active in that by-gone era of fundamental discoveries in
science and health care.
Working in public health he "derived a simple
measure for classifying people's weight relative to an ideal weight
for their height." His proposal, the body mass index[2] (or Quetelet
index), has endured to the present day and experienced a broad
recognition with the health and diet craze of our generation.
No wonder the French are thin. They have been
at it for almost two centuries.
Oh, the formula? Mass in kg divided by height
in m, divided by the height again.
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[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index
