kids’ health
Printable BMI Chart For Children
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Calculating Your Child’s Body Mass Index
Your child’s Body Mass Index (BMI) is a calculation of how much of their weight is made up of fat. You can calculate your child’s BMI by taking your child’s weight in kg divided by height in metres squared. If you’re a bit of a maths ignoramus like me you can use the very handy calculator below! Another very useful feature of …
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Buying Shoes That Fit – 10 Top Tips
I confess that when I was a teenager in the eighties, in the name of fashion, I wore some very ill fitting shoes. I remember they hurt my feet and the synthetic materials made very sweaty walking, but I didn’t care – I looked good! Fortunately, no lasting damage was done to my pinkies, and I have to thank my amazing …
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What is Fitness?
Most kids know that fitness is important for health. The grown-ups are always banging on about it after all aren’t they? Just as you’ve settled down to a great computer game dad says ‘Get off that Playstation’ after only 3 minutes. When you’re lying in bed on a Saturday reading a comic, mum chases you up and asks if you would like …
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Clean Your Teeth Properly
Now that you are old enough to brush your teeth on your own, are you doing it properly? Lots of kids hate brushing their teeth and only whizz the brush round their mouth for a few seconds, are you like that? If yes, the chances are, you are not getting rid of all the harmful tooth plaque that can damage …
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Does Your Child Carry Too Much To School?
There must be days when your child has to take everything but the kitchen sink to school! Guitars, cookery ingredients, football kits, packed lunch and of course, books, are dragged there and dragged all the way back regularly, but have you stopped to think about the health implications for your child? The weights that children are required to carry to school …
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Can Drinking Water Help Your Child Make Healthy Food Choices?
“Here’s the deal mum,” says my son, “I can only eat my salad with a gulp of water. It gets stuck in my mouth and I can’t swallow it.” It’s yet another salad-dodging excuse that I’m well used to from the darling child. But it seems he may actually have a point. Researchers from the university of Oregon have discovered that giving your child …
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Family Health
I am a worrier. I come from a long line of women who could win an olympic sport in worrying. So when I began thinking about the rude health of my kids – guess what, I got worried! You see, my kids, like millions of others are not overweight, they eat pretty well and they can run for miles and …
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Dehydration in Children
Dehydration in children. What do you give your kids for breakfast? If your household is like the majority of households in the country, then at eight o’clock in the morning, whilst juggling the kids’ packed-lunches, uniforms and homework, you will plonk a dish of cereal and a glass of orange in front of the kids because it’s quick and hassle free. How many of …
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Symptoms of Hayfever
Many kids are lucky enough to be fit and healthy and resilient to all sorts of bugs and nasties. They are the kids that get a 100% attendance rate at school because they are never ill! Our kids are just like that. As the older generations would say ‘they have a strong constitution’! It was a bit of a surprise …
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