Calculating your ideal body weight (IBW) can help you gain some insight into your possible risk for weight-related health conditions. However, this tool doesn’t always provide an accurate assessment.

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

Today, women are often multitasking between work and home, the professional and the emotional, often at the cost of their own health. The importance of health is mandatory. These seven habits, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starre Vartan is the author of “The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body,” which will be published on July 15. People who lived through the Irish ...

This is the first post in a series. Quite often, body image is discussed as if it were an issue that resides in and belongs only to the individual person. And because it is often seen as a personal ...

From fat cells that stretch like spandex to more flexible muscles, scientists are finding that women’s bodies are just as strong as men’s. A surfer prepares for one of the worst surfing mishaps, a ...

If you’ve scrolled through newsfeeds about celebrities or movie award shows, you probably noticed how harsh some of the comments directed at women’s physical appearance can be: “She should eat a ...