Test your grip in just one minute to reveal your fitness, immune strength, and aging risk, says a certified trainer.

Strength training boosts your metabolism, helps you burn more calories during workouts and increases muscle mass, which means ...

Protein: 1 gram per pound of bodyweight, though Galpin says that hitting 80 percent of that number is good enough. (American ...

For those body recomping, Machowsky recommends consuming 0.8 to 1.0 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight. While you’ll ...

Losing just 6.5% of body weight in midlife may lower later risk of disease and premature death, new research shows.

Among 25 different measures of adiposity, abdominal fat was significantly associated with a risk for psoriasis. Among 25 ...

Turkey has launched a nationwide campaign to measure citizens’ weight in public to combat its rising obesity rates — a move critics argue amounts to public fat shaming and government overreach.

At the National Institutes of Health, a group of adult volunteers participated in a tightly controlled dietary study. Some ...

Emily J. Kirby, MD and the team at Kalos Medical Spa are now offering ShapeScale, a 3D body scanner that tracks weight loss ...

Understanding your body is one of the best ways to prevent disease before it starts. While regular checkups with your doctor ...

Zone 2 training is a fitness method that targets 60% to 70% of one's maximum heart rate, and maximizes fat burning compared to more strenuous exercise.

Researchers have found that central body fat, especially around the abdomen, is more strongly linked to psoriasis risk than ...