As many people begin the year with health and fitness resolutions, Boise State University’s Human Performance Laboratory is ...

For bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts, changing body composition often reflects hard work and discipline—but knowing body composition is useful for anyone, and for more than just bragging rights.

Laboratories are no longer peripheral. They are central to modern clinical development - enabling earlier decision-making, ...

There are various types of body composition tests (more on these below). Still, each one measures the percentages of fat and fat-free mass (muscle and bone) in the body. Knowing these percentages can ...

Thanks to the ever-improving world of fitness trackers and apps, you've never had more access to personal health data. But which of the dizzying number of markers and metrics should you really be ...

The Omron Body Composition Monitor and Scale BCM-500 is part of the Bathroom Scales test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Smart Bathroom Scales models like the Body Composition Monitor ...

Forget about traveling to a lab for a pricey X-ray to get an accurate measurement of body fat percentage—Amazon’s Halo app can do it with just four smartphone photos and the app’s built-in machine ...

When she got her first job as a sports dietitian at the University of Oregon in 2011, Rachel Manor was tasked with putting teams of student athletes through the Bod Pod. Basketball players and track ...

People come to running with many different goals: to compete, to hang out with friends, to get healthier, to “lean out.” This sport can help you achieve many of these things. However, according to a ...