A recent study conducted by the University of Florida suggests that Body Mass Index (BMI) may not be the most reliable ...

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

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass ...

Lower diversity in the oral microbiome was linked to higher depressive symptoms in a large U.S. sample, with especially ...

ABSTRACT. Objective To investigate the associations among visceral adiposity index (VAI), lipid accumulation product (LAP), body fat percentage (%), and android/gynoid ratio (A/G ratio) in women with ...

Navy research in the 1940s also developed the use of total body water measurement as a method to predict body composition (Pace and Rathbun, 1945). This became even more useful in body composition ...

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 ...

Many people rely on body weight as a metric when tracking their health. Indeed, it’s very easy to measure simple body weight ...

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.