People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart ...

An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio show stronger links to colorectal cancer (CRC) than body mass index (BMI), a new ...

Over 75 medical organisations worldwide have endorsed the new definitions, reflecting a growing consensus for reform.

People recovering from eating disorders say the focus on weight and BMI can be triggering and counterproductive.

Despite years of glorifying thinness, a review of research involving almost 400,000 people has determined that fitness rather ...

She was the classic case of being skinny fat, a person who has normal body weight but has a high percentage of body fat ...

The researchers calculated fat stored in muscles through the ratio of intermuscular fat to total muscle plus fat, and termed ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Research found that every one per cent increase in muscle fat was associated with an increase of two per cent in risk of ...