If it would be nice to trim your waistline this season, research suggests you exercise during these particular hours.

Scientists mapped fat tissue differences in obese individuals, uncovering cell changes linked to metabolic disease risk and ...

Read here to know more. Visceral or "belly fat" stored within the abdominal cavity can do more harm to health than subcutaneous fat (fatty tissue lying directly under the skin), says an expert.

A pair of identical twins decided to follow two popular fitness  diets for 12 weeks - only one of them reported having more ...

Hormonal imbalances, particularly elevated cortisol and insulin resistance, disrupt metabolism, making fat loss difficult.

Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

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

Weight gain, cancer, diabetes, gut problems and high blood sugar levels have all been linked with the late night activity ...

Visceral fat is abdominal fat that is located inside the abdominal cavity, as opposed to subcutaneous fat, which is the fat just below your skin, explains Meghan Garcia-Webb, M.D., who specializes ...

Rather, the AMA suggests that it be used in conjunction with other measures of risk, such as visceral fat (found deep within the abdominal cavity), the body adiposity index (based on hip and ...