Overweight Children and Adolescents
New England Journal of MedicinePublished 18 May 2005
William H. Dietz, Thomas N. Robinson
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A seven-year-old girl is 130 cm tall and weighs 34.6 kg, with a body-mass index above the 95th percentile, and eats fast food and drinks soft drinks regularly, has limited exercise, and watches television or uses the computer for hours each day.
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A seven-year-old girl is 130 cm tall (the 90th percentile for girls of the same age) and weighs 34.6 kg (above the 95th percentile), with a body-mass index of 20.5 (above the 95th percentile). Physical examination reveals no abnormalities aside from her excess weight. She eats fast food and drinks soft drinks regularly, has limited exercise, and watches television or uses the computer for hours each day. What should you advise?
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