"BMI is a measure of body size, but does not provide information on fat distribution, whereas waist circumference is a proxy more closely related to abdominal adiposity." Overall, the researchers ...

Body fat is a fact of life. We all have it, and many people would like to have less. But recent research is turning some of our assumptions about fat upside down. Scientists now believe there’s ...

someone with more body fat mass will be lighter in the water. Unfortunately, this is not something you can do at your local ...

California’s physical fitness test, a fixture in schools for 25 years, is set to be eliminated because it measures students’ body fat, too often inciting shame and anxiety among students, under a ...

Scientists have spotted unique subtypes of fat cells in the human body, and by unraveling their functions, they found that ...

We heard of a laboratory test ... fat burning. Men and women burn fat and carbohydrate in different ways. Men are very much ‘carbohydrate burners’ – if as a man you eat carbohydrate then ...