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.

Your body often sends quiet signals when something isn’t quite right — and your skin is one of the first places those clues ...

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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 ...

When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...

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 ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. If the smoke alarm in your house were beeping frantically, you’d spring into action. If your car alarm ...