Abstract
Childhood obesity is a manifestation of discrepancy between energy intake and expenditure, which disturbs the original steady state causing to form a fresh steady state at an elevated level, with the consequence of increased body-fat storage. Balance must be established between tissue synthesis, resulting in gain of height, and fat storage, resulting in gain in mass, in order to avert childhood obesity. Many definitions of childhood obesity are available. During the last five years, our group put forward the First- to the FifthGeneration Solutions of Childhood Obesity. The last one consisted of a mathematical definition of childhood obesity, related to the logical definition. This paper proposes a range for 6 monthly mass-management targets instead of single values, by fitting two parabolic curves, both originating at the age of the most-rent checkup. One of these curves meets tangentially, at the age of 10 years, the straight line, which represents reference percentile at the age of the most-recent checkup, whereas the other curve meets the straight line, which represents percentile of BMI-based-optimal mass at the age of the most-rent checkup. The range is obtained by 6 line segments drawn parallel to vertical (percentile) axis drawn at the date of check up for the next 6 successive months. The range of mass-management goals may render the task of optimal-mass management easier instead of a single value
