A UVA cardiovascular physiologist, said measuring a person’s VO2 max can give an insight into their health and longevity.

Weight-inclusive health care is the provision of equitable care without perpetuating weight stigma among patients of all body ...

A recently published LongITools study led by the University of Oulu identified two new childhood BMI patterns, challenging ...

Adolescents who perceive themselves as overweight are three times more likely to consider committing self-harm compared to ...

It turns out that being able to carry 75% of your body weight for a minute—sometimes referred to as “the carry test”—can tell ...

From 2013-2014 to August 2021-August 2023, there were small increases in the percentage of children and adolescents with obesity, as well as in adults with severe obesity (but not obesity). There were ...

Music and art have long been closely tied together, each taking inspiration from the other (for better or for worse).

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found ...

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Most of us are familiar with grams as the smallest common unit to measure weight, but that’s not true. Silver can also be measured in milligrams (0.001 g) or even micrograms (1e-6 g)! Other units of ...

Diamonds and other gemstones are weighed in metric carats: one carat is equal to 0.2 grams, about the same weight as a paperclip. (Don’t confuse carat with karat, as in “18K gold,” which refers to ...