People with higher levels of abdominal body fat are at greater risk of having brain atrophy with aging, according to an international study that included a team of clinical researchers from Providence ...

Thanksgiving dinner leave you uncomfortably stuffed? Try four easy yoga poses that calm bloating and help your body settle ...

Discover the foods that can inflame your stomach, trigger bloating and discomfort, and learn why avoiding them helps you feel ...

It is a large part of the body that lies deep inside, out of sight and perhaps out of mind: your abdominal core. A new and rapidly developing area of medicine focuses on abdominal core health, ...

When it comes to heart health, new research adds to the argument that a pear-shaped body, which is heavy in the hips, may be better than an apple-shaped body, which carries more weight around the ...

BACKGROUND: Obesity is increasing worldwide because developing countries are adopting Western high-fat foods and sedentary lifestyles. In parallel, in many of them, hypertension is rising more rapidly ...

An otherwise healthy four-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department by his mother several hours after he had an unwitnessed fall at home. He had been playing with his friends, when they ...