Resources

BMI information for health professionals

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  
• Healthy growth toolkit – Canada
  
• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines
  
• BMI calculators
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  Royal Children's Hospital - Department of General Medicine

If you use the CDC calculator, the units are entered in centimetres, and it gives the BMI and BMI percentile, indicating whether it is the healthy range. Be aware – this is an American site which uses “at risk of overweight” for overweight and “overweight” for children who are obese.

• Victorian Government Health Information
  - Health and Development Record
  - Body Mass Index-for-age percentiles:
  • Girls (PDF - 85Kb)
  • Boys (PDF - 72Kb)

Healthy BMI information for parents

For more information and resources on a healthy lifestyle, look at the following websites and parent information sheets.

Useful websites

• Go For Your Life produced by the Victorian Government
  
• Raising Children Network by the Australian parenting website
  
• Nutrition Australia
  
• Better Health Channel

Parent information sheets

Activity guidelines for children

• Encouraging kids to be active (PDF - 38Kb), Raising Children Network
• Children – getting them active (PDF - 41Kb), Better Health Channel
• Activities for younger children (PDF - 34Kb), Raising Children Network
• TV and obstacles to physical activity (PDF - 30Kb), Raising Children Network

Drinks

• Why no sweet drinks for children (PDF - 86Kb), Go For Your Life
• Water for infants and young children Parent Information (PDF - 45Kb), Community Paediatric Review
  Volume 15 Number 3, September 2006.

Healthy eating principles

• Try it, you’ll like it! Vegetables and fruit for children (PDF - 98Kb), Go For Your Life
• 24 ways to get kids to eat their greens (PDF - 66Kb), Go For Your Life
• Calcium – children (PDF - 41Kb), Better Health Channel
• Healthy eating and play for toddlers (1-2 years) (PDF - 84Kb), Go For Your Life
• Healthy eating and play for kindergarten children (3-5 years) (PDF - 117Kb), Go For Your Life
• Healthy eating for kids (PDF - 35Kb), Better Health Channel

 

Videos

Dietitians Association of Australia

The Dietitians Association of Australia provides a list of Private Dietitians available in Australia. You can use the link below to find an accredited Private Dietitian near you.