to think this BMI calculator is bollocks?

[onemiddlefinger]

I'm not particularly concerned with my DS's weight but just after reading another thread I went and checked the NHS BMI calculator and apparently he is VERY OVERWEIGHT!!!

He certainly is big but he is also very tall for his age (2yrs 3 mnts), when recently seeing a pediatrician (for another reason) I did ask if there is anything we should be worried about regarding his size (way over the 99th percentile in weight and height for his age) and she assured that he was in proportion and he was fine. So how do these BMI calculators work?
I find this result to be a bit shocking and complete bollocks at the same time.

talkinpeace snacking wasn't invented in the 70's. My infant/junior school used to sell crisps for playtime in the 60's. Most children also had sweets and chocolate in addition to meals.

In the 60's and 70's though, children walked to and from school, and played outside all the time. We ran about, played hide and seek all day, skipping ropes, roller skates, bikes, spent hours on the swings, knocking on doors and running away the lot. Kids tv was only on for an hour or two in the afternoon and a couple of programmes in the morning in the school holidays. You only ever played indoors when the weather was too horrible to go outside.

We burned all the calories off.

In the 1960s, in my circle at least, sweets & chocolate were occasional treats, in small amounts, of limited variety.
We ate 3 meals per day and eating sweets between meals was discouraged.

I bought 1 choc bar per week from my pocket money.
I was given annually on average: 2 Easter eggs, 3 ice creams, 3 small packets of ready salted crisps

Commercialised snacks developed by Big Food arrived in the 1970s and the huge variety and the massive bags came much later.

In the 1960s, no snacks were sold at my primary school. My Secondary school had a little tuck shop for mid-morning break, but only a couple of kids per class had money to buy anything. The entire school of 500+ kids had 1 fat kid; the primary school had none.

Kids were lean even before growing spurts. They were very lean indeed for a few weeks afterwards.

Electronic gadgets hadn't been invemted and there wee 3 TV channels, all boring. So, we were turfed outside to play all the daylight hours and we roamed miles to play. There was no homework at primary school and much less at secondardy.

oops: were 3 TV channels