A new study reports that measurements that detect body fat are a more accurate predictor of mortality risk than body mass ...

New University of Florida study finds body fat percentage is 78% more accurate than body mass index in predicting mortality risk, challenging the long-standing use of BMI as a health indicator.

A greater intake of plant fat, particularly fat from grains and vegetable oils, was tied to lower overall and cardiovascular disease mortality, a study in JAMA Internal Medicine showed.In ...

Healthy low-fat diets were associated with lower risks for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, whereas overall and unhealthy low-carbohydrate diets were linked to increased risks, according to ...

That’s why the “U-shaped” mortality curve has been dubbed the “obesity paradox. ... measuring body fat requires subjects to take a trip to a lab or to conduct the measurement on themselves, which can ...

She starved herself, eating nothing for 17 out of 30 days, too hungry to sleep, too consumed by “brain fog” to reason, to connect with her husband and baby daughter, to “be an agent.” All of this ...

As per a prospective cohort study, waist circumference along with BMI modestly improves the prediction of which postmenopausal women are at a higher risk for premature death.

Healthy diets containing low amounts of saturated fats and carbohydrates are associated with a lower risk of mortality in older adults, a new study has found. Investigators followed more than ...

The inverse associations of plant-based fat intake with any-cause mortality were statistically significant among individuals aged below 60 who consumed one to three alcoholic beverages per day.

What we know about it. In the late 1980s, one of us (SNB) published a study that demonstrated that individuals with a low (below first quintile=20th percentile) cardiorespiratory fitness level had a ...

The inverse associations of plant-based fat intake with any-cause mortality were statistically significant among individuals aged below 60 who consumed one to three alcoholic beverages per day.