Your PWR is the amount of power that can be produced in relation to your body weight, usually expressed in watts per kilogram. The higher your power-to-weight ratio, the easier it will be to pedal and ...

As BMI is increasingly recognized as an imperfect way to measure health, UVA researchers share other metrics they rely upon.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented a new method that uses DNA sequencing to measure metabolites. This ...

Your weight tells only part of the story. Body composition reveals the real truth about health, fitness, and longevity beyond the scale.

Body composition refers to the percentages body fat, bone, and lean tissue mass (basically, the muscle, organs, water, and ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

Comparing the models’ scores over time served as a rough measure of AI progress ... Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely ...

New research provides a potential explanation for why long-term sclerostin neutralization leads to continued bone mass gain, despite attenuation of its short-term effects on bone formation.

However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced ... The report’s findings suggest that BMI — the measurement traditionally used by medical professionals to determine healthy ...

Using the Body Mass Index (BMI) to diagnose obesity should go the way of blood-letting, an international panel of 58 scientists argued in the British medical journal The Lancet. Doctors should instead ...