What makes a man’s body attractive? A new international study explored this question using body scans and evolutionary models ...

BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...

Body mass index for men by race categories from the National Health Interview Survey, 1992–1995. Each box corresponds to the interquartile range of the data, the 25th to 75th percentiles, and ...

Body Fat Analysis, Waist Size Better Than BMI For Assessing Health By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, June 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A person’s body fat percentage provides a ...

Women working permanent night shifts vs. day shifts faced an elevated likelihood for moderate to severe asthma, whereas this was not observed in men, according to results published in ERJ Open ...

Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO The average weight for men 20 years and older in the United States is just under 200 pounds, at 199.8 pounds. Though it's helpful to understand, the average ...

New research has shown how boys being overweight in early childhood or having chickenpox or another infectious disease in ...

BMI was popularized by physiologist Ancel Keys in 1972. He created the equation based on research using only "healthy" men of primarily White, European ancestry.

Quitting smoking is linked to greater long-term waist circumference gain, but this effect may be due to shared genetics ...