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World Health Organization 2017 define obesity among children and adolescent in two standard deviation based on age and sex World Health Organization 2017 p212 However the world health body admit to the challenges that obstract develoment of basic index that can be used to measure prevalence of obesity in teenagers and young children that are of school going age World Health Organization 2017 According to WHO the challenges are as a result of rapid changes in their bodies as they grow and develop to become mature adults World Health Organization 2017 p76 According to Reilley Kelly and Wilson 2010 are of the opnion that most efforts to study prevent and treat obesity has been hindered by the lack of optimum way of defining obesity Reilly et al 2010 They used their study to review the use of Body Mas Index BMI and Waist Circumfrence WC to diagonize high body fats and cardiametabolic risks in children under the age of 18 years Because of these challenges and the need to gather precise data and figures on pervasiveness of obesity among children and teenagers a substitute method has been developed to ensure correctness in the process and the method does this based on age of children Martin et al 2016
