The Latest Breaking News from Body Fat

These are my favourite tried-and-tested bathroom scales for tracking every body metric

Weight also doesn’t accurately reflect how much body fat someone carries

Resistance training could burn fat similarly to cardio, and combining the two on the same or different days won't impede your fat loss efforts, says a 2025 study.

Women are more affected by heatwaves due to differences in body fat, hormones, and how they regulate heat, a doctor has explained.

Lizzo silences weight-loss speculation with bold before-and-after photos, revealing that lymphatic massages, daily workouts, and ditching junk food helped her slim down. No Ozempic required.

A new study compares body mass index (BMI) with body fat percentage and finds the latter is far more reliable in predicting obesity-related diseases and death.

The cost-effective option is already found in some primary care practices

Most of us use BMI as a quick health gauge—but what if it’s telling us almost nothing about our real risk of death? A sweeping...

A jury has found a former Rhode Island high school basketball coach not guilty of second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault after he spent decades asking hundreds of male student-athletes if they were “shy or not shy” before asking them to get naked so he could their check their…

Jurors have begun deliberating in the child molestation trial of a former Rhode Island high school basketball coach who asked hundreds of male student-athletes to take off their underwear so he could check their body fat

Long and slow or short, hard and fast. If your goal is to reduce body fat which of these methods will get the best result?