The disparity in BMI between urban and rural areas remained modest over the three decades, with a maximum difference of less than 1.4 kg/m² across all countries and years and less than 1.1 kg/m² ...

Dr. Aoki: Growth plate is a little line in the bone, and that line of bone, it's the area in your bones that allows for that growth. And so that area, the growth plate is the area where the body . . .

Stages of child development are important measures of growth and maturity. There are many tools to measure development. Here's a list of developmental milestones.

Vegetarian and non-vegetarian children were similar in terms of growth and nutrition, but vegetarian children had higher odds of being underweight, according to a new study.

See e.g. Jay N. Giedd et al., “Brain Development During Childhood and Adolescence: A Longitudinal MRI Study,” Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 2, p. 861, 1999 (MRI study of the brains of 145 children ...