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With January sales in full swing, you could save yourself a few dollars on some of these best smart scales. While the Body Mass Index (BMI) is often used as an indicator of health, it only considers ...

For many people, scales are something you step on once a year at a doctor’s appointment, otherwise enjoying blissful ignorance regarding your weight and its natural fluctuations. But a good digital ...

What is bone density? Put simply, it is a metric used to measure the strength of your bones – and a helpful method of assessing the potential risk of osteoporosis, a condition that weakens bones and ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...

Increasing your calcium intake, supplementing with vitamin D, and doing resistance training builds bone density.