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

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 ...

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When it comes to measuring weight, BMI is the acronym everyone loves to hate. Health professionals have long used body mass index as a quick screening tool to fast-track certain patients into a “code ...

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 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 ...

The body mass index, or BMI, predates the bathroom scale by more than half a century. But it has not changed with the times. The BMI was created in the 1830s before calculators and computers existed.

The Army is adopting a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to its ubiquitous tape test that measures body fat in soldiers. Approved June 12 by Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, the new test will ...

BMI is not an accurate predictor of health because it does not account for body fat percentage or body fat distribution. In addition, BMI cannot accurately predict the health of different demographics ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is denouncing it as a diagnostic tool for obesity. They say ...