Obesity rates for Black children and adolescents are 22.4% in the decade before the pandemic and 35% in the 2 years after the ...

Lifestyle therapy may not be enough to improve outcomes for patients with HF and obesity, but careful risk evaluation and ...

You’ll find it at the doctor’s office, at the gym, and in online calculators: the body mass index, or BMI, has been ever-present since its introduction in the 1970s.But this metric of a ...

BIA uses a small, painless electric current to determine your body fat percentage, lean muscle mass, and water content.

The results showed that just 1 in 10 adults with overweight or obesity lost 5% or more of their weight in a given year. This ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found ...

For many people, no matter what doctor you're seeing, the routine is essentially the same. You enter the room, sit down on the medical exam paper, get your blood pressure taken, then step on the scale ...

A new study found that a person’s BMI did not correlate with a statistically significant increased risk of death from any ...

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 ...

What does the fracturing of vaccine advice and policy mean for the U.S. health care ecosystem? Will the potential head of the ...

Trader Joe's recalled cheese curds for potential Listeria contamination in two states. (Fox Business) The American Medical ...