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

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

Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Samuel Hill weighs Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Perrin during body composition assessments aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln. (MCS Joey Sitter/Navy) Later ...

A body composition test measures percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in the body. It can provide a snapshot of your overall health, inform strategies to improve health, and help gauge progress toward ...

If you are looking to keep track of your vitals at an affordable price, then the Wyze Scale Ultra BodyScan needs to be on ...

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It’s no secret that BMI is a flawed metric for measuring our health. It’s why BodySpec developed a new metric they’ve coined “BFI” that incorporates more than just weight and height, using hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...