Learn surprising and evidence-based corrections to commonly held beliefs about the human body.

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing ...

OLYMPIAN Daley Thompson has been evicted from Celebrity Big Brother. The former athlete has become the third housemate to be ...

The human digestive system refers to the organs that take in food and break them down. Digestion describes the complex process that enables the nutrients in food to enter the body and its cells.

These are responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body. Low levels of hemoglobin ... Low hemoglobin is diagnosed when people fall below the normal ranges of hemoglobin levels.

When commercial fishing nets dredged up a fossilized jawbone off Taiwan’s coast in 2010, scientists puzzled over where it might fit on the human family ... of April’s full moon, known as ...

A Danish couple has achieved viral - or possible bacterial - notoriety after it was reported that they left 158 barrels of human excrement after fleeing their bankrupt nature retreat. The couple claim ...

The results of full-body scans are frequently hard to interpret, difficult to act upon, and detrimental to mental health, Davenport says. “Someone who identifies as a normal, healthy person is quickly ...

Candace Cameron Bure is getting candid about a challenge that "a lot of women struggle with." During Tuesday's episode of "The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast," the "Full House" alum, 49, opened up ...

It clarified that, under Sharia law, a woman must cover her body except for her face and hands, making the niqab non-obligatory. The Muftiyat described the full-face covering as 'an alien ...

Tributes have been paid to a "passionate and dedicated" former Royal Society of Biology (RSB) scientist whose dismembered body parts have been found in Colombia. Some of Alessandro Coatti's ...

Last year Candace talked about an 'awkward' episode of Full House that focused on her character D.J.'s body image struggles ... "I was just a normal, average girl." And you meet people and ...