Regular monitoring of children's nutritional status is essential to prevent micronutrient
deficiencies, nutritional status abnormalities as stunting, wasting, overweight and obesity.
Nutritional status assessment is usually performed by paediatricians by using anthropometry
(body mass index, weight to height indices) and/or by body fat-mass measurement
(bioimpedance analysis, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, computer tomography, etc.).
Parents are also interested in but usually fail to evaluate their child's nutritional status. To …