Honda has had Stefan Bradl as its only test rider for many years, but committed to recovering its best level, has strengthened the test team with two signings: Aleix Espargaró and Takaaki Nakagami, ...

While cheese has long gotten a bad rap for its saturated fat content, a growing body of research suggests that it can actually be good for you if eaten in moderation and as part of a balanced diet.

The body mass index (BMI), a weight-to-height ratio, has long been criticised as too simplistic, in part because it cannot distinguish between fat and muscle mass. Currently, anyone with a BMI of ...

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“Knowing that intermuscular fat raises the risk of heart disease gives us another way to identify people who are at high risk, regardless of their body mass index," Taqueti says.

On this occasion for the first time, they met again in a different box Romano Albesiano, HRC's new technical director, and its former rider Aleix Espargarò, in the new role of lead test rider.

as disease status cannot coincide with body size or mere excess body fat." The Commission on Clinical Obesity has proposed a "reframing" of obesity that distinguishes between people who have a ...

Aleix Espargaro admits he “couldn’t even stand” Marc Marquez in the first years of his MotoGP career owing to the rivalry the latter had with brother Pol Espargaro. Marquez and Pol Espargaro ...

is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of how much body fat someone has relative to their overall body weight. They’re both ways of ...

One of the main problems with BMI is that it can’t distinguish between muscle and fat. This is important because excess body fat is a good predictor of heart disease risk. BMI is not. A recent study ...

The scanning process took about five minutes. First, the machine weighed me, then scanned my skeletal muscle mass, body fat, and water content when I held the hand electrodes. At first ...

“While it would be nice if you could lose fat from wherever you’d like, your body handles fat as it wants.” However, while you may not be able to bump belly fat to the front of your fat-loss ...