Following the New Year, just about everyone on the internet—qualified and not—starts offering up dieting advice like clockwork. And for every well-balanced and sustainable plan you see, you ...

LONDON — The size of human beings has increased over the past ... in 2003 by the World Health Organization on the height and weight of more than 100,000 people across 69 countries.

Human bodies have a number of other adaptations to walking upright, as well. Our foot is specialized as a weight-bearing platform, with an arch that acts as a shock absorber. Our spines have a ...