Recently, researchers set out to explore whether your body weight or your fitness level is a better predictor of your heart ...

Nearly half of adolescents and three-quarters of adults in the U.S. were classified as being clinically overweight or obese ...

Find out why body fat percentage is a more accurate indicator of your health than BMI. Learn how to calculate it, discover ...

New body composition tests are replacing BMI as a more accurate way to assess health and fitness. Measuring muscle mass and body fat provides key insights into strength and longevity that the scale ...

A woman on her post on X criticised IRCTC for assigning her a seat among five men. The statement sparked a debate over social ...

Imagine trying to work out if you are dangerously overweight without once hopping on to the bathroom scales. That's what a new method for determining body size aims to do.

Experts have started thinking more broadly about what puts a person at risk for heart disease, still the leading killer in the U.S.

Jessica Booth is a New York-based freelance writer who regularly writes about health, wellness, parenting, food, travel, beauty and more for a variety of publications. She currently writes for ...

The overall average body fat percentage in the United States is about 39.9% for women and 28.1% for men, so below these amounts would technically be “below average.” However, most people in the United ...

HELSINKI — One in four men in Finland younger than age 35 believe women may be deserving of violence due to behavior or how they dress, a survey published on Tuesday showed. The Coalition of Finnish ...