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Support Children’s Healthy Growth
This presentation is intended for trainers to provide detailed information about
supporting children’s healthy growth and preventing overweight.
The project was supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA National Research Initiative Grant # 2006-55215-16726
Objectives
Learner will be able to: – Describe the prevalence of childhood overweight.– Identify the causes of childhood overweight.– Describe ways to prevent childhood overweight
and support children’s healthy weight.– Recognize the role of active play in supporting
children’s healthy growth.
What’s Everyone Talking About?
• As of 2004, 66.3% of adults 20 years and older are overweight.
• 32.2% are considered obese.
Prevalence of Childhood Overweight
• Increased from 5% to 13.9% for children aged 2-5 years the past 30 years.
How can you tell?• The Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a measure of
how proportionate a person’s weight is to their height.
Interpreting Children’s BMI
• BMI is also the measure of choice for children over 2 BUT must be interpreted with care!
Interpreting Children’s BMI
• Children’s BMIs change with age so that what is normal for a 6-year-old is quite different than for a 12-year-old.
• See www.cdc.gov/growthcharts for more information.
Example: 95th Percentile Tracking Age BMI
2 yrs 19.3 4 yrs 17.8 9 yrs 21.013 yrs 25.1
For Children, BMI Changes with Age
Boys: 2 to 20 years
BMI BMI
BMI BMI
BMI-for-Age Cutoffs
> 95th percentile Overweight
85th to < 95th Percentile Risk of overweight
< 5th percentile Underweight
Children’s Healthy Weight
Ideally, all children would to be at a healthy weight.
BUT preventing weight gain is a great goal.
An achievable goal for children is to lead a healthy life regardless of their weight.
Supporting Children’s Healthy Weight
• Encourage the introduction of solid foods at approximately 6 months!
More ways to prevent overweight and support a healthy weight
• Visit: http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/mealtimeandactiveplay/ for information on feeding strategies
Active Play
• Being physical active is critical to supporting children’s healthy weight!
• Visit http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/mealtimeandactiveplay
Treatment and Partnership
• Treatment is prescribed by the child’s physician
• Critical to partner: you, parent, and the child’s physician!