The Pentagon is shifting from height and weight tables and replacing them with a waist-to-height ratio methodology.

The Pentagon on Monday issued a memo directing the U.S. military to evaluate the body fat of troops using a waist-to-height ...

Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that more than two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, and the numbers keep climbing in our children. Although we ...

Hydrostatic weighing, also known as underwater weighing, is a method to measure a person's body fat and lean body mass; it involves sitting on a specialized scale in a water tank. It has generally ...

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

Knowing the correct body fat percentage for women might sound a little too heavy on the science for the non-athletes of us ...

Here’s what to know about body composition numbers and what these metrics mean for your health and performance.

Many people with “normal” body mass indexes may still be obese, new research suggests. The study, which will be presented Friday in Chicago at ENDO 2023, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, ...

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 ...

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