Adult Ideal Body Weight and Percent Calculations

This calculator provides your child’s weight percentile based on age. The percentile shows how your child’s weight compares to other children. The percentile tells you what percentage of children weigh less than your child. For example out of a sample of 100 children, a percentile value of 40 percent means your child weighs more than 40 children and weighs less than the other 60.

A percentile of 50% represents the average or mean weight. A value below 50 percent means a child weighs less than the average. A value greater than 50 percent means a child is above average. This does not mean your child is overweight or underweight. A doctor or physician should be consulted to determine weight status.

The clinical growth charts reflect modifications in the format of the individual charts, whereby two individual charts appear on a single page, and data entry tables have been added. The clinical charts have the grids scaled to metric units (kg, cm), with English units (lb, in) as the secondary scale. Clinical charts are available for boys and for girls. The available clinical charts include the following:

BMI Table

bmi/ kcal/ pro calculation.xls  — Useful spreadsheet to calculate BMI, IBW, kcal needs and protein needs.

The Raising FIT Kids BMI Calculator computes your child’s body mass index (BMI). You’ll learn whether your child’s BMI falls into an underweight, healthy weight, overweight, or obese range. And, more importantly, you’ll better understand how your child’s weight and body fat contribute to his current and future health.

Nutrition and nursing professionals rely on food intake reports to identify residents who are at risk and to plan and evaluate nutrition interventions, and an assessment of food intake (ie, whether a resident is eating less than 75% of most meals) is not only useful for patient management but is also required for completion of the Minimum Data Set.

It is critical to have a reliable method for tracking food intake in hospitals and nursing homes and none of the commonly used assessment methods provide conclusively accurate estimates of food intake (J Am Diet Assoc. 2003;103:873-877).

The Calculating Percent Meal Intake For Patients tool has been developed to increase accuracy and to simplify the process. Free, no fee, just use.

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