The average American is overweight; that’s not exactly a novelty. But the scale is striking. A stark report from the Centers ...

Keep reading to learn more about factors that influence women’s weight, like age, height and activity level. Average Weights Around the World American women tend to weigh more than women in other ...

On average, human males tend to be about 5 inches (13 centimeters) taller than females. But why? In short, we're not sure. Even though this sex-linked height difference exists across the world, we ...

Women around the world have increased their height and weight at half the rate of men over the last century, widening the physical gap between the sexes, new research finds. For the study, titled 'The ...