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Amazon Halo’s body fat percentage scanner gives just as accurate a reading of a person’s body fat calculation as methods that physicians use, according to a recent study conducted by Massachusetts ...

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 ...

Jennifer Fields, assistant professor of nutritional sciences, has developed an equation to allow coaches, trainers, and ...

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk. A new study from the University of Florida found that BMI — a measurement that is commonly used to determine whether a ...

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 ...

If you say you want to lose weight, you’ll probably measure progress by stepping on a scale. But in truth, what you’re trying to lose is fat, and the number on the scale may not reflect that. There ...