The British Heart Foundation has identified specific waist measurements that may indicate increased health risks ...

Porter’s Chapel Academy teacher Frances Warren uses her civil engineering background to turn math and science instruction ...

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

It’s the riskiest type of fat to carry, but scientists have been studying belly fat for decades. Here’s what you can glean ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Waist-to-height ratio outperforms BMI in predicting heart disease risk, particularly among people who are not classified as ...

It was once called a 'beer belly', but modern diets and stress are reshaping women and men's waists worldwide.

Just over one in 10 deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases can be attributed to obesity worldwide, finds a major new ...

The World Anti-Doping Agency could investigate if evidence emerges that male ski jumpers are injecting their penises in a bid ...

Scientists find clue to human brain evolution in finger length: Study ...

Researchers have found a link between prenatal oestrogen exposure and larger head size in newborn boys, using the ratio of ...