When you go into your doctor’s office for a physical, the first thing they will do is have you step on the scale to check ...

(Vlad Fratila's Images/Canva) A simple calculation may do a better job than body mass index (BMI) at flagging the risk of ...

New research links stress, BMI, and hormone patterns to pubertal timing, revealing implications for long-term health and ...

New waist-to-height cutoffs to assess fat mass and obesity predicted the risk of hypertension better than body mass index, ...

A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Society for Nutrition, offers new ...

A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition, offers new insights into a decades-old puzzle in childhood obesity. The ...

Two simple eating habits — early breakfast and prolonged night fasting — are associated with a lower body mass index years later. This was reported on April 11 in the journal Science Daily.

Why childhood obesity is becoming a cause for concern in a country that now ranks second globally for kids who are overweight ...

A new study suggests an alternative to BMI for assessing heart failure risk, showing that fat location matters more than overall weight.

Study shows higher rate of child obesity in N.M.

In A Nutshell A study of more than 19,000 Americans found that a waist-to-height ratio showed stronger links to high blood ...

For decades, U.S. investors have exhibited a pronounced home-country bias. That bias shows up in portfolios that overweight U.S. equities relative to their share of global market capitalization.