The Marine Corps has strict height and weight standards. However, it is considered acceptable not to meet the height and weight standards as long as you meet the service's body fat standards. Now, a ...

Many people wish to know the answer to this question: how much should I weigh? There is no single ideal weight for all individuals. While various tools and calculators offer a guide, they may not be ...

Sci-writer writer Annalee Flower Horne has been looking at the X-Men Voting information, letting readers vote for the final member of the new X-Men team in the Marvel comics. Including the statistics ...

Donna Christiano Campisano is a freelance writer specializing in women and children's health issues. She has written for numerous consumer publications and websites, including Parents, Woman’s Day, ...

Both men and women lose height with aging, much of which is the loss of fluid and height of the intervertebral discs (the ...

What makes a perfect couple? Shared values? Yeah. Shared understanding of the future? Sure. But what if we told you, for some, it's that perfect height difference? Yes, you read that right. For some, ...

Background: Weight for height in children is often assessed by comparing the child's weight-for-age centile with their height-for-age centile. However, this assessment has not been validated ...

Is your weight problematic? The answer is not as straightforward as you might think. Sure, there are scales and charts and different scientific methods of calculating “overweight and overall fatness,” ...

Watching your baby girl grow is one of the most joyful experiences of parenthood. Between 12 to 24 months, she begins to move from infancy into early childhood, which is a stage full of physical, ...

The average weight for men 20 years and older in the United States is just under 200 pounds, at 199.8 pounds. Though it's helpful to understand, the average weight for a man isn't always the same as a ...