An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient ...

As children and young people are still growing, underweight, normal weight and overweight cannot be defined properly as in the case of adults. The BMI for children is also gender-related. The margins ...

Underweight, characterised by a body weight too low to be considered healthy, is a serious yet often overlooked public health ...

The highest rate of underweight children was found to be 4.22 percent for 12-year-old girls and 3.88 percent for 15-year-old boys. Boys ages 7 and those 9 to 17 also logged record rates ...