Study shows people with high body fat are 78% more likely to die and three times more likely to die from heart disease, ...

When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew ...

Body fat analysis is a better means of predicting a person’s health than body mass index Body fat and waist circumference both significantly predicted people’s 15-year risk of death BMI did ...

DEXA stands for dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and is the gold standard for body mass analysis. Such machines can cost between $45,000 and $80,000, so patients typically travel to a hospital or ...

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight-loss surgery.

Importantly, McGarrity notes, weight loss itself wasn’t associated with these positive changes to health. Change in BMI did not correlate with depression, anxiety, or dysregulated eating—implying that ...

Results show that body fat analysis did indeed predict people’s risk of death from any cause and, specifically, for heart ...