Experts explain 25 reasons why weight loss efforts may stall, from diet and exercise missteps to medical conditions, and offer actionable solutions to overcome them.

muscle mass, heart rate, basal metabolic rate (BMR), water, body fat mass, lean body mass, bone mass, visceral fat, protein, skeletal muscle mass, subcutaneous fat, metabolic (body) age and body type.

New research to be presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11–14 May) shows that patients ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University medical research team aimed to investigate the effects of respiratory muscle dysfunction on clinical outcomes related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that patients using GLP-1 or combined GLP-1 / GIP receptor agonist therapy for ...

At six months, women had lost an average of 10.8kg of fat mass, but only 1.4 pounds of muscle mass (0.63kg), while men had lost 25 pounds of fat mass (12kg) and only 2.4 pounds of muscle mass (1kg ...

To build muscle mass, you need around 1.2–1.7 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight or 0.5–0.8 grams per pound of body weight. Here's why and other factors to consider.

Previous studies have shown that protein expression of DOCK7 is increased in skeletal muscle biopsies from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), leading researchers from the University of ...

Researchers investigated the quantities of thousands of muscle proteins and found a possible new explanation for muscle memory. A study showed for the first time that muscles 'remember' training at ...