Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it ...

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

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

A new mouse study suggests that "beige" fat surrounding blood vessels can send calming signals to the arteries—revealing an ...

The Pentagon on Monday issued a memo directing the U.S. military to evaluate the body fat of troops using a waist-to-height ...

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 ...

The Pentagon is shifting from height and weight tables and replacing them with a waist-to-height ratio methodology.

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Most people know that body fat stored around the midsection can spell disaster for cardiovascular health. But Harvard researchers have now discovered another problematic fat-storage location in the ...

When we think about fat, we most often think about white fat cells, which store excess calories like so many batteries, ...

Do muscles make the man? New research reveals that body fat and BMI play a bigger role in male attractiveness than most ...