Body fat percentage refers to the ratio of fat mass and lean mass throughout a person’s body. It’s an indicator of health and in some cases, can be related to sports performance. For both athletes and ...

For patients with obesity, researchers have found the greatest improvements to health come from losing just 5 percent of their body weight. That relatively small weight loss lowered patients' risk for ...

The focus of obesity-management interventions should shift from percentage weight-loss targets to patient-oriented parameters such as enhancing quality of life (QoL) and function, research to be ...