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Don't be too quick to believe the "severely underweight" label. Before Americans started routinely stuffing themselves and their kids with junky and highly processed foods, and spending half their lives in front of various screens, people, and especially kids, were a lot thinner. is her body fat at least 8% (tested by a reliable method -- not just a caliper test)? If so, don't worry about it. I used to coach gymnastics, and noted that in most cases the scrawniest kids were the strongest, healthiest, and brightest. The dramatic drop in age of puberty for girls has been attributed in large part by most researchers to increased body fat in modern girls. Do you REALLY want to deal with childhood ADD and normal adolescent insanity at the same time? Seriously, unless a really good DOCTOR (not a "nutritionist") says that your daughter's weight is so low as to be a real medical problem, I'd just relax and let her be skinny.

I am not worried, she is healthy. Even though she looks like an auschwitz victim, she is a gymnist, loves the uneven bars...Her older brother (14yrs) I call him 2%, not an ounce of fat on him and he is deathly strong, more so than his older brother (16) and he lifts! I was skinny in high school, 6'3" at 155lbs (30 inch waist!) until I got comfortable in marriae :) (250)