Humans are getting taller, but we still weigh too much
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How interesting it is that scientists have discovered another species of human - an 18,000-year-old skeleton named Homo floresiensis that has been described as &quot;hobbit-sized.
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up 400,000 in just eight years, a report reveals. And experts warn the figure could grow to three million sufferers by 2010 as we get older and fatter.
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Scientists have discovered the first gene that influences a person's height.
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City kids, like their country cousins, are struggling with weight problems, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Maybe walking upright on two legs isn't such a defining human feature after all. Scientists who spent a year photographing orangutans in the rain forest say the trait probably evolved in ancient apes navigating the treetops long before ancestors of humans climbed to the ground &#151; a hypothesis that contradicts science museums the world over.
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released on Wednesday showing that the US population is, literally, growing.
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A WEIGHTY ISSUE: On average, American adults are about an inch taller and nearly 25 pounds heavier than they were in the early 1960s, the government reported Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Kids who carry excess pounds may be doing permanent damage to their feet, a group of foot and ankle surgeons warns.
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Active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes.
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NEW YORK  - Modifying the consumption of  different food-groups may keep body weight from creeping up  over time, new research suggests.
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Doctors and health advocates have warned for years that American children are getting fatter. Now even some kids&#039; teddy bears are packing on the pounds.
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Researchers think our body clock could mean humans find it difficult to adapt to life in space.
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Children who are obese are damaging their feet and may have problems walking, a study suggests.
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Older, heavier and sedentary, more and more Americans are suffering from high blood pressure, the latest government report shows. And while the numbers in the report are
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A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight &#151; if ever so slightly.
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The bigger they are, the harder they can fall.