If you want to know what you're made of, you'll need to be dunked in a tank of water, hooked up to electrodes, pinched or climb half naked into a giant egg like Lady Gaga at the Grammy Awards. In ...

Soldiers often call plastic surgeon Adam Tattelbaum in a panic. They need liposuction – fast. Some military personnel are turning to the surgical procedure to remove excess fat from their waists in a ...

A soldier receives a 3-D body scan at Fort Bragg, N.C. on Oct. 18, 2021. The scan/study is part of a comprehensive body composition study examining the association between body composition and Soldier ...

The Army has developed a simplified method to asses a soldier's body fat as the military faces declined readiness due to obesity. The U.S. Army has published new body fat assessment standards to ...

Marines who fail a tape test for body-fat percentage will soon be allowed to take a different type of exam before being placed in a remediation program after results of a new study led the service’s ...