The more insight you possess for your workouts, the more successful they become. That's why it's important to understand how to calculate your fat-burning heart rate and then implement this knowledge ...

For more than 30 years we have been wedded to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the sole criterion for deciding whether someone is obese or not. It is used by most health authorities to classify both ...

I have written about the use of Body Mass Index (BMI) in prior columns and the issues related to its actual applicability for accurately measuring overweight and obesity in individuals. However ...

BOSTON - A new study finds there may be a more accurate way to calculate a patient's risk of death from obesity, and it involves measuring a person's waist. Obesity, especially visceral or belly fat, ...

The goal in changing how obesity is defined is to offer a more nuanced and objective way to assess body composition, by adding more metrics, such as waist circumference, to the criteria. For years, ...