Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

A DEXA scan, historically used for bone density scanning, is also an accurate way to measure body composition, which can reveal clues about your heart health.

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 ...

Objectives Relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs) is a syndrome resulting from problematic low energy availability (LEA).

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 ...

A device made to diagnose osteoporosis is being marketed to track fitness goals. A midlife athlete finds out if the hype is ...

The Rice Recreation Center recently introduced Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry scans, which Anatolia Vick-Kregel, senior associate director of health and well-being at Rice, described as a ...

Believe it or not, 'TOFI' - meaning Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside - is a real term used to describe people with a 'normal' BMI but higher-than-average levels of visceral fat. This generally ...

A cohort analysis was performed on patients referred to the Nuclear Medicine Clinic over 3 years for whole-body blood pool scans. These scans were evaluated using region of interest (ROI) analysis of ...