Calculating your ideal body weight (IBW) can help you gain some insight into your possible risk for weight-related health conditions. However, this tool doesn’t always provide an accurate assessment.

The hamstrings tend to get a lot of love during a stretch routine (who doesn’t have tight hammies?). When it comes to strength training, though, the quads and calves steal most of the spotlight — ...

Adjusted body weight is used to calculate weight, which considers lean and fat mass. This tool can help provide more precise medical and nutritional assessments. Healthcare professionals often use ...

Low-fat, low-carb, Paleo, keto, South Beach, intermittent fasting—the list goes on. Given that our culture idealizes thinness and shuns larger bodies, it’s not surprising that nearly one in five ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland Evangeline Gardiner is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, exploring ...

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a New York City-based magazine and book writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Women’s Health, Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Prevention, ...

Weight loss can be a long—and at times frustrating—journey, depending on your health condition, fitness level and goals at the start. Seeing the results of your hard work will spur you to keep going.

Internalized weight stigma is when a person applies negative societal or cultural beliefs about body weight to themselves. These beliefs come from social norms, which are unwritten rules that govern ...

There comes a point in every woman’s life where losing weight becomes harder than it used to be—that’s just a fact. Weight loss after 50 takes a lot of consistency, commitment, motivation, and ...

Weight loss and fat loss are often confused as the same thing. Weight loss involves lowering overall body weight from any source, including water, muscle, and fat. Fat loss involves lowering body fat ...