Eating just 5 percent more calories daily can do the trick.

The scale has never been a friend to Mana Mostatabi. Even back in high school, when she ran a quick 100m on the varsity track team, her BMI – a ratio of weight to height – put her in the overweight ...

Body composition is a way to measure and monitor your fat mass and your fat-free mass. Fat-free mass includes any tissue that isn’t fat—muscle, bone, water, blood, cells, organs, and so forth. While ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether peripheral muscle strength is significantly different between lean and obese women controlled for age and physical activity, using an allometric approach. DESIGN: ...

Strength training for women could make all the difference to your body and mind, whether it’s using body weight or dumbbells ...

If you’ve been to a boutique fitness class recently, chances are you’ve heard these three little words: “long and lean.” Because that’s the promise of so many female-targeted workout trends these days ...

A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat, but muscle is denser and takes up less space. You can gain muscle and stay the same weight if you're losing fat at the same time. Muscle helps ...

Women over 50 have a unique set of health needs. You lose quite a bit of lean muscle after age 50. This is because of a number of factors, but menopause is one of the main culprits. Menopause can mean ...