When it comes to weight loss, we live in an era that feels more influenced than investigated. We receive so much nutrition ...

The recommendation to “just lose weight” can not only be unhelpful but also offensive. In an effort to support patients in ...

When it comes to losing weight, many people use a scale to help check their progress – but that number doesn’t tell the whole ...

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 ...

Introduction: Although previous studies have demonstrated that lipoprotein (a) [Lp (a)] and body mass index (BMI) are associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), their joint effect on atrial ...

Obesity is one of the most stubborn health challenges of our time, linked with diabetes, heart disease, sleep problems, and shortened lifespans. Doctors have long sought treatments that not only help ...

Despite some spaces still viewing body size as a good indicator of health, new research has shown that being underweight could actually be worse for you than obesity.

A U-shaped association exists between BMI and the risk for liver stiffness in older adults, with both lower and higher BMI ...

An investigational small-molecule, nonpeptide oral GLP-1 receptor agonist significantly reduced weight in adults with obesity in the randomized ATTAIN-1 trial. At week 72, orforglipron at multiple ...

Researchers found that overweight individuals, as well as some obese individuals, were no more likely to die than individuals ...

In the U.S., the average woman's waist size is about 38.5 inches, which is above the 35-inch threshold that health experts ...

Researchers used drug-target Mendelian randomization to test whether genetically proxied activation of GLP1R and GIPR ...