In the U.S., the overall average body fat percentage is around 40% for women and 28% for men. Body fat (BF) percentage refers ...

When it comes to achieving healthy body weight, some men might look to what’s average and use that as their goal. For ...

Higher BMI in early adulthood and midlife is linked to better memory performance, particularly in men and Black Americans, ...

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

HealthDay News — Fasting plasma glucose (FPG), age, body mass index (BMI), and male sex are all associated with development of diabetes, according to a study published online Jan. 23 in JAMA Network ...

And thus, body mass index was born (though it wasn't called ... The participants were all men, and predominantly white. Nevertheless, in 1985 the National Institute of Health changed its ...

Researchers found that teens with obesity ate more later in the day than their peers of healthy weight, and that their eating behaviors were strongly influenced by their internal body clock.

“Skinny fat” is a term that refers to having a high percentage of body fat despite a normal body mass index (BMI). It’s a common misconception that small or thin bodies are an indicator of ...

I have written about the use of Body Mass Index (BMI) in prior columns and the ... risk categories included only non-Hispanic white men. Recently, some researchers and clinicians have been ...

Korea: A recent study published in the Radiology Journal has highlighted the significant role of obesity and skeletal muscle ...