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This is on BBC1 right now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062c0tf Also a very interesting study with old twin ladies, one of whom is slim and the other overweight. An analysis of their stools showed the thinner one had more good microbes in her gut which helped her keep her weight down...

That's why I put five or six carriage returns in my post, so that you wouldn't think the two were linked. I failed.

You drink 8 pints of milk a day?

No, I'm saying that parents need to educate themselves, and schools need to make sure physical education is part of the curriculum. The NHS should keep it's resources for those who really need it. Children were monitored up to school starting age at 5. After that, it's the parents...

My post isn't in the context of BMI, which I think is a crude form measurement and flawed.

I got to 5' 6" by 12. Maybe it was something to do with getting glandular fever when I was 8? I don't know, but I was like a skinny beanpole with legs like matchsticks. :lol: I was always skinny after that, and became slim after having children. It's only since I developed thyroid problems...

I personally blame the food manufacturers. You used to have to add sugar to cereal at breakfast time. Now practically every box has tons of it, in daft shapes to appeal to children.

Children have growth spurts. They fill out and then grow upwards again. I can remember having to buy school trousers for my son three times in just one term, as his trouser legs were flapping above his ankles.

As Westdene, has already mentioned a 9 year old girl may have already reached puberty, where water retention can add 4lb to her weight just because of her menstrual cycle. Height is also a poor indicator, as I stopped growing upwards at 12 years old. I would've been classed as underweight, as...

You need help in seeing your point? :wink:

It's worse than that. A visit from Jamie Oliver is imminent.

Of course you should check for lumps, in the groin as well as the testicles, in the same way as women should check their armpits for the lymph nodes as well as their breasts. After 50 women also have mammograms, as the biggest percentage of breast cancer occurs in post menopausal women...

Hashimotos is Hypothyroid due to my antibodies attacking the gland. I couldn't even lose weight at Slimming World. Thyroxine only replaces the T4 and we need T3 as well but the NHS only approves the generic Thyroxine. I have found the 5:2 diet better. 5 days a week eat normally and 2 days keep...

Schools believe it enough to write to parents.

I'm very pleased you didn't tell your daughter about it. Girls have more problems with anorexia than being overweight. She sounds very fit and active, and of course, you're right, puberty makes a huge difference.

As I said in my next post, my GP nor consultant rheumatologist bother with the 'easy measurement'. There are many other factors, such as age, gender body fat ratio etc.

Exactly. My GP and consultant rheumatologist agree.

I am overweight (not obese) yes, although I have lost over 6lbs in the last 6 weeks on the 5:2 diet. BMI takes no account of the fat percentage of the body and sports people can appear overweight due to their muscle. The difference between waist and hip measurements is more accurate...

BMI is a flawed measurement and takes no account of muscle weight.