How Do You Measure Obesity?
A person can be overweight, underweight, or an ideal weight. There is no perfect weight for a child, but there are ideal weight ranges for children, depending on your height and whether it is a boy or a girl. While healthy children may weigh a little more or a little less, a good weight limit is between 23 and 32 kilos (50 to 70 pounds) for an 8 year old.
However, being overweight is more than a number on the scale. A doctor is the ideal person to get an opinion about the weight of a child; you can consider an ideal weight range for a child taking into account your height. It is natural for a child higher than a child despite lower, without implying that you are overweight. Perhaps the best way to determine if a child is overweight is to use the so-called body mass index or BMI.
BMI uses height and weight of a child in a mathematical calculation which is obtained with a number. That number may be in a table which considers the child’s age and whether it is a boy or a girl. BMI is an indicator of body fat a person, but is only an estimate. Considering that muscle weighs more than fat, a person may have a high BMI muscular, but that does not mean overweight.
Similarly, it is possible that someone with a low BMI or ideal in any case have too much body fat.
