Dr. Neel Raval is a board-certified sports medicine physician with Providence Health Services in Los Angeles. Dr. Raval's expertise lies in the conservative, non-surgical management of musculoskeletal ...

If you’ve been to a boutique fitness class recently, chances are you’ve heard these three little words: “long and lean.” Because that’s the promise of so many female-targeted workout trends these days ...

Body composition is a way to measure and monitor your fat mass and your fat-free mass. Fat-free mass includes any tissue that isn’t fat—muscle, bone, water, blood, cells, organs, and so forth. While ...

While 5 pounds of muscle and 5 pounds of fat weigh the same, they can look quite different and have different health effects. Muscle is not factored into your BMI, but it is factored into your body ...

If you don’t use it, you lose it. That’s common wisdom, backed up by science, about what happens to aging muscles. And if your goal is to lose weight – whether you have obesity or a few pounds to drop ...

Your body is made of a lot of things and so it is important to know how it works for you to set specific goals. If you are about to hit the gym, chances are, you wanna know how your body reacts to ...