Sentence examples for normal weight for height from inspiring English sources

Migraineurs should be motivated to maintain a normal weight for height and age or decrease it if overweight or obese.

Children with endocrine disorders often have short stature with normal weight for height, or even relative obesity.

4 Children's heights were significantly stunted, in part reflecting their leg deformities, but their relatively normal weight for height and serum albumin did not indicate acute malnutrition.

Using the WHO categorisation of BMI (Table 3), risks were estimated relative to cases and controls who were of normal weight-for-height.

Until my late teens I was overweight and although I am now (nominally) a normal weight for my height, I still feel fat and unattractive.

Clairegirl, like many of the girls who include their stats -- height, weight and goal weight -- when posting on such sites, would not receive a diagnosis of anorexia, because she is not 15percentt under normal weight for her height and age.

But 12-15% of the children we see are below the normal weight for their height, and there are some acute and chronic cases," says Rubén Falconi, a doctor at the post.It is 14 months since Argentina declared a debt default and devalued the peso.

That expected growth in the proportion of obese Americans -- up from 34% -- contained good news and bad: Obesity's growth has slowed from the record-setting pace that has marked most of the last three decades; at the same time, the numbers of the severely obese -- those carrying 80 or more pounds more than the healthy, normal weight for their height -- is expected to grow by 130%.

If they are less than 70 per cent of the normal weight for their height, they are classed as severely malnourished and enter a therapeutic feeding programme.

The most remarkable result was the fact that all 16 of the subjects were classified as overweight at the beginning of the study and at the end six of the subjects were now in the normal BMI category, ie, a normal weight for their height.

The condition is characterized by destructive weight loss behaviours and a refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height.