With New Year’s resolutions in full swing, lots of Americans are committing to being more fit and losing weight. One stubborn area that many of us will be battling is that squishy part around our ...

Higher levels of muscle fat were associated with increased odds of high blood pressure, poor blood sugar control, and unhealthy cholesterol levels. Higher lean muscle mass, on the other hand, was ...

Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors. This includes factors within your control, like your diet and physical ...

Fat has had quite the parley in dietary discussion spaces – the low-fat movement starting in the 1980s told us we should eliminate fat, while high-fat diets like keto tell us the opposite. How do you ...

(Mevans/E+/Getty Images) A higher level of the fat that gathers around organs has been linked to faster brain aging in a new ...

Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors. This includes factors within your control, like your diet and physical ...

Read how losing belly fat has multiple health benefits, like reducing your risk of metabolic syndrome, sleep apnea, fatty ...

Most saturated fats raise "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which increases your heart disease risk. Short- and medium-chain saturated fats might have a neutral or positive effect on ...

Fat in the diet has long been linked to stroke risk, but new research presented Monday suggests that it’s the type of fat, not the amount, that may be the more important factor. The study found that ...

Eating more unsaturated fats, especially polyunsaturated fats, in place of either dietary carbohydrate or saturated fats lowers blood sugar levels and improves insulin resistance and secretion, ...