Diets and weight-loss drugs are marketed with health halos. But the real drive to lose weight is the societal stigma around ...

Though burning fat and building muscle concurrently may be possible, it's not necessarily optimal, says Lee Boyce, C.S.C.S., ...

“Fat is a great way to store energy, and adipose tissue is a highly specialised tissue for energy storage. If there is an energy deficit, then your body will dip into energy (fat) stores to ...

Mice with an unusually potent form of brown fat tissue experienced expanded lifespan and increased exercise capacity by ...

BEER BELLIES ARE beloved when they're on a your grandfather or Santa Claus. Even Patrick Mahomes has been getting some serious cred for being an all-star athlete with a little pudge. But, when one ...

According to Vatner, "This was a clue that there might be some form of adipose tissue dysfunction to be discovered." How much and where fat is deposited in the body is shaped in part by a group of ...

Research across the NU system — from biomedical research conducted in Omaha to agricultural research in the Panhandle — has ...

Body mass index (BMI), which is measured by taking a person’s body weight and dividing the square of their height, has long ...