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Cancer survivors can reduce their ongoing risk of death by sticking to diet and exercise guidelines recommended by the ...

Smart scales track changes in your muscle mass, body fat percentage and other health metrics — but how do they work?

Finding the best weight loss supplements for women (or anyone, really) can be like finding a needle in a haystack — except ...

Despite the success of drugs like Ozempic (semaglutide) in promoting both weight loss and longer life, doubt remains about the role of body mass index (BMI) at older ages. Many studies have shown that ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

Researchers have established in a new study that the weight-adjusted waist index is a much better predictor of age-related ...

The study focused on survivors of obesity-related cancers “due to the significant role of lifestyle factors in their ...

Researchers have found in a new research that switching from ticagrelor to clopidogrel in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients showed improved clinical outcomes in individuals with a ...

Critics are once again questioning the efficacy of BMI as a tool for diagnosing obesity, suggesting that a more holistic ...

A YOUNG woman has revealed that she lost five and a half stone after using fat jabs for nine months. Bethany Diana, 27, ...

For the past decade, the body mass index formula has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outcomes based on higher body weight ...