Troops must have a waist measurement close to or less than half their height or risk being placed in their service's remedial programs.

A mouse study shows that beige fat, previously known for its heating function, may also lower blood pressure by keeping blood ...

I joined a gym in October hoping the scale would fall. Three months, one and a half hours a day, six days a week later, my clothes were looser and my body fat had dropped, but the weighing machine ...

Here’s what to know about body composition numbers and what these metrics mean for your health and performance.

The move replaces traditional height-and-weight tables as the primary measure of body fat standards.

High intensity interval training (HIIT) may be the optimal exercise for reducing body fat while maintaining muscle mass in ...

Eating at flexible times and exercising reduces body fat in middle-aged women without the need to count calories.

Somewhat surprisingly, higher overall fat mass was also protective; it produced up to a 38% reduction in dementia risk and slower cognitive decline (except in relation to verbal fluency). Taken ...

A new study suggests that the impact of obesity on brain health depends not just on how much fat the body carries, but where ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. A study of primary school children shows that excess screen use is tied to higher body fat ...

The effect of obesity on brain health may depend not only on how much fat is in the body, but also on the areas of the body where fat is stored, according to a study published today in Radiology.