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

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 ...

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 ...

Tokyo-based online fashion retailer ZOZO launched its ZOZOSUIT 2 in October. The body-measuring jumpsuit is the second version of the idea after the retailer’s first iteration failed to capture a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

Google recently received FDA approval for its body temperature feature. The Pixel 8 Pro’s thermometer works by measuring the infrared radiation your body emits and then puts the results through an ...