Your ideal body fat percentage can depend on your age, sex, and activity level. Tracking movement and calories can help determine your body’s healthiest weight. No number is a complete picture ...

THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of reasons to get yourself in the gym: get stronger, move better, improve your heart health, look better. And, no one motivator is better than another—exercising for the ...

There are several types of dietary fat, and some fats are more healthful than others. Saturated and trans fats tend to be associated with more health risks, while unsaturated fats are associated ...

Walking remains one of the most underrated forms of exercise for burning fat, especially around the belly. Unlike high-intensity workouts, walking is low-impact, sustainable, and easy to incorporate ...

Subcutaneous fat is the fat you can "pinch." Found throughout the body just beneath your skin, subcutaneous fat plays an important role in protecting your health, but having too much can put you at ...

Lifting weights increases lean muscle mass, which boosts resting metabolic rate. A May 2021 study from Wiley found that exercise resulted in significant weight loss, fat loss, and visceral fat loss, ...

The chances are that your Instagram feed is packed with exercises that promise quick routines that can shave inches off your waistline in record time. A quick search on YouTube yields thousands of ...

Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests. Just a few days of ...

Get your beads and King Cakes out! Mardi Gras is officially upon us! The annual celebration is one of the most iconic cultural events in the United States, known for exuberant parades, festive ...

Figure 1. Some of the alterations in the metabolic risk profile that have been found to be related to abdominal obesity assessed by anthropometry and later to excess visceral adiposity/ectopic fat ...

Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown fat that may open a new path to helping people stay physically fit as they age. A team from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School found that ...