Troops must have a waist measurement close to or less than half their height or risk being placed in their service's remedial ...

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

Modeling isn’t just a matter of strutting your stuff on the catwalk—it also means that you need mathematical precision when it comes to taking your body measurements. Having precise measurements is ...

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 ...

While we often focus on the number on the scale, it is really our body fat percentage that tells us just how healthy and fit ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Marine Corps has begun shipping more than 250 new biometric machines around the globe as part of a new policy to measure body composition standards more accurately before labeling a Marine ...

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 ...

Women usually have a higher body fat percentage than men. A body fat range of 25% to 31% for women or 18% to 24% for men is typical for nonathletes. Measuring your waist, using skinfold calipers, or ...