A recently published article states: “Weight for height and age is, as many have previously held, an inadequate index of the ‘nutritional status’ of a child. It is unscientific and unfair to set average weight as a goal for all children or for an individual child. Weighing and measuring, however, should be continued as a record of the trend of individual growth that is of value to the physician in relation to other findings and to interest the child in his or her growth.”The passage implies that weighing and measuring the height of children