The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...

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It's official -- the Army will now assess body fat using a tape measurement around the waist only. The service announced Monday it has simplified one of the key ways it judges soldier physical fitness ...

BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in meters, and it usually does not ...

Hydrostatic weighing, also known as underwater weighing or hydrodensitometry, is one of the most accurate ways to measure body fat. It was considered the gold standard for measuring body composition ...

This article was reviewed by Felix Gussone, MD. Key Takeaways: Body composition offers a clearer picture of health than ...

The Lilliputian tailors measure Gulliver for a new suit of clothing, from Part I of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." (1726) Illustration (1909) by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) Source: Alamy stock ...

All sorts of electronic devices claim to assess your fitness. Do any of them actually work? Pennington Biomedical Research Center is giving one of them a thumbs up. The body composition feature of the ...

Discover the Hume Body Pod: a smart wellness device with multi-frequency sensors measuring body composition, muscle, fat, and ...

A new study suggests that body shape, specifically the degree of roundness around the abdomen, may help predict the risk of ...