Waist-to-height ratio should be used in conjunction with BMI to assess overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, a ...

News 13 brings you a segment focused on health and fitness on News 13 Midday every Wednesday called “Wellness Wednesday”.

Contrave and Wegovy are both weight loss medications. Learn about their effectiveness, side effects, costs, and which ...

Black students at NIU worry about the future of racial healing programs as Secretary of Education Linda McMahon's ...

Children with above-average BMI trajectories are at increased risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease later ...

New-onset type 2 diabetes was linked to an increased risk for developing certain cancers typically related to obesity, ...

A review and analysis of reams of earlier research found that being out of shape doubled or tripled the risk of dying ...

The average weight for women in the U.S. is 170.8 pounds, and the average height is 5 feet, 3 inches tall. These are mathematical calculations, so they don’t necessarily represent what’s typical or ...

Did you know your waistline might be telling you more than just your fitness level? Research shows that every 4-inch increase ...

Metabolic Score for Insulin Resistance elevation was associated with increased risk for hypertension across multiple demographic factors.

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for ...

Findings of a study comparing waist circumference to BMI for predicting the development of obesity-related cancers show that ...