In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy ...

The air that women breathe up to three months before they become pregnant can have an effect on the future baby’s size. A ...

In a study of more than 5,000 mothers and their children, exposure to air pollution during the three months before pregnancy predicted higher child body mass index (BMI) and related obesity risk ...

Researchers found that an increase in PM2.5 levels by 16.2 micrograms per cubic meter during preconception was linked to a ...

Environmental exposures during this timeframe can affect the health of sperm and eggs, which are in their final stages of ...

Forty-four percent of personnel in the Canadian Armed Forces are considered overweight while 28 per cent are classified as ...

The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has made recommendations that diagnosis is focused on measures of total body fat, ...

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health problems from extra weight and other measurements.