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Dear Friends:
Thought you all would be interested in this. One has to register for this
service. The website for the article is
http://www.kidsgrowthmarketplace.com/feature.cfm?uc=2757e18p5x960369461&cat=tn
ews&pos=3
June 2, 2000 -- Earlier this week the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention released updated growth charts.
The revised pediatric growth charts more accurately reflect the nation’s
cultural and racial diversity and track children and young people through age
20. Additionally, the charts now include a new assessment for body mass index
(BMI). According to the CDC, there is considerable improvement in the infant
growth charts, where new data and improved statistical procedures have been
useful in the revision process.
CDC’s new growth charts are based on data gathered through the National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). This survey showed that in
the past two decades the number of overweight children and adolescents has
doubled. Additionally, it showed that over half of all American adults are
overweight and that the number of obese adults has doubled. Health care
providers hope that the new BMI charts will help address this nationwide
problem. The growth charts indicate that, in general, children are heavier
today than in 1977, when growth charts were first used, but height has
remained virtually unchanged.
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; northeastern USA)
supporter of the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative
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