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 ...

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

That shift matters because many fat loss strategies still prioritize speed and scale over how the body adapts along the way. When fat loss is too aggressive, the body doesn’t just pull from fat stores ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems — not only weight gain but also an increased risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases. At the cellular level, ...

Our body fat, often pointed at, is in reality indispensable to our physiological balance. Its dysfunction, whether from an ...

CINCINNATI—Cardiac researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found a new cellular pathway that could help in developing therapeutic treatments for obesity-related disorders, like diabetes ...

A new GLP-1 weight loss drug called survodutide has shown promising results in a phase 3 clinical trial. The drug, which ...

Obesity is linked to a lot of issues that can impact your health and quality of life. One of these is a condition called fatty liver disease. Fatty liver disease is an illness in which fat builds up ...

Insulin resistance is linked to MASLD in type 1 diabetes, revealing a higher-risk metabolic profile. Learn more about ...

MUSC researchers are tackling MASH, or metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, a liver disease affecting hundreds ...

Researchers have uncovered a molecular mechanism behind why obesity can lead to hair thinning. They found that stem cells within hair follicles in mice given a high-fat diet behaved differently from ...