Sarcopenia is the gradual loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength, and functioning.  It typically begins at some point in our ...

With the recent surge in popularity of weight loss drugs like Ozempic, altogether called GLP-1s, there has been renewed scientific interest in understanding how our bodies regulate muscle growth.

A body composition analyzer is a device that assesses your BMI, muscle mass, and body fat. You may feel healthy, but you can ...

Can you build muscle while you are eating fewer calories to lose fat and excess weight? Learn what may help meet your goals.

Intramuscular fat, contained within muscle tissue, increases the risk of serious heart disease, regardless of other risk factors, a new study suggests.

One of the primary limitations of the BMI is its inability to distinguish between the fat mass and the lean muscle mass.

The condition is better measured by looking at factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, and glucose tolerance, ...

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart ...

About one in eight adults in the United States has tried or currently uses a GLP-1 medication, and a quarter of those users cite weight loss as their main goal.

The scanning process took about five minutes. First, the machine weighed me, then scanned my skeletal muscle mass, body fat, and water content when I held the hand electrodes. At first ...

Increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, was independently associated with coronary microvascular function and major adverse CV ...