NATS 1675 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Body Mass Index, Physical Exercise, Reference Management Software

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Test grades available by next week hopefully. Most rapid period of growth after birth is infancy/first 2 years. The second most rapid period of growth after birth is adolescence; more striking because of external development and more noticeable changes. 7 pound baby is usually 14 pounds around 4-6 months, tripled their weight by first birthday. Some diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, diarrhea often are picked up by the fact that the child is not growing adequately first sign that the child is not growing properly. Cranial circumference: if the baby"s skull isn"t growing, the brain isn"t growing, accurate sense of growth of brain but not necessarily that all the pathways are connecting. Body mass index: didn"t use to worry about this with children but the increase in obesity in children it is now used, the first three of the above are used in tracking growth during childhood. Growth for the individual child is recorded on a standard chart-either who or.

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