A healthy weight can depend on many factors, including your age, sex, muscle mass, bone mass, and lifestyle. Some measures, like body mass index (BMI), do not take all of these measures into account.

Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI A healthy weight and BMI range for adults over age 65 may mean carrying a few ...

If you wonder how your body sizes up to others your age, it can help to compare to the average weight and height of teenagers. Keep in mind there are several factors that affect the average weight of ...

Babies develop at very different rates, both physically and when reaching developmental milestones like sitting, walking or ...

You may have a pretty good idea of how much you should be eating per day. Or you might not have a clue and simply tuck into ...

One size chart doesn't fit all when it comes to evaluating birth weight and health outcomes of newborns. One size chart doesn't fit all when it comes to evaluating birth weight and health outcomes of ...

The charts that doctors use when assessing a baby's birth weight should take into account the mother's ethnicity, to better predict health problems after birth, a new study from Canada suggests. For ...