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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in meters, and it usually does not ...

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 ...

Women usually have a higher body fat percentage than men. A body fat range of 25% to 31% for women or 18% to 24% for men is typical for nonathletes. Measuring your waist, using skinfold calipers, or ...

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 ...

The Army is wrapping up research on how best to measure a soldier's body fat -- but the service's controversial tape test might not be dead yet. The Army is in the midst of totally revamping health ...

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 ...