Is a 5' 1'' 11-year-old obese or overweight or average weight at 130 pounds?

Answer 1

A simple way of checking if a 11 year-old is obese or overweight is to go to the Tone Teen Body Mass Index Calculator in the related links below.

Then, type in the child's weight and height. Your bmi (short for body mass index) score will determine what the child is. If your child's BMI is lower than 18.5, he or she is underweight. 18.5 --24.9 healthy 25 --29.9 overweight Over 30 is obese. If the child's score is in the healthy section but you think she/he is fat, the BMI probably reads healthy because it won't give exact results for children under 18 and/or that she/he is surrounded by people that are underweight and she/he feels left out in a group like that even though she/he might by healthy after all. i have checked the results and the BMI reads "25 overweight"-- that is okay. i was overweight but if she/he eats less calories and a healthy breakfast, then she should become healthy, which I am now. :)

______________________________________________________________________ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) makes a distinction between children who are obese and overweight. Obesity is determined by a number of criteria, including sex of the child, precise height and weight, precise age, exact date of the measurements and the Body Mass Index (BMI). The BMI is generally considered to be a reliable indicator of the ratio of fat to muscle. For children and teenagers, adjustments are made to the calculation to account for differences in age and gender. This calculation is sometimes called BMI-for-age.

According to the CDC, a boy or girl who has a BMI higher than 94% of others of the same age and height is obese. A child with a BMI lower than the highest 5%, but higher than 84% of others, is considered overweight. Those with a BMI in the lowest 5% are considered underweight; and the rest are in normal range.

According to the CDC's BMI calculator for the data given in the above question, assuming the subject is a boy, this height-to-weight ratio would put this child just above the edge of the overweight category. This person would be considered to be obese by the CDC.

The CDC is an agency of the United States Government dedicated to the control and prevention of disease in the U. S. The CDC's BMI calculator is available via their Web site, along with sensible recommendations about how to become healthier.

Answer 2

No