Your breakfast choices could be personalized based on your metabolism – if you're trying to stay trim. A new study suggests that men and women process and store energy from foods in different ways, ...

Type 2 diabetes, a chronic metabolic condition marked by the body’s inability to properly use or produce insulin, leads to ...

New research suggests that a larger waist circumference is a bigger risk factor than body mass index (BMI) for obesity-related cancers — but only for men, not for women. Experts weighed in.

The fat that you can see and that you can pinch between your fingers is subcutaneous fat, a layer of fat just under the skin.

Even today, women remain broadly underrepresented in medical literature, according to a study published in 2022 in Women’s Health Reports. Misogynistic attitudes remain as well. And while the US ...

How and where fat is stored in the body, for instance, is a key risk factor for type 2 diabetes in everybody, but not all fat is created equal. At younger ages, men are more likely than women to ...

In study after study, injected GLP-1 weight loss medications appear to work better on average for women than they do for men. What’s not clear is why.