Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's official -- the Army will now assess body fat using a tape measurement around the waist only. The service announced Monday it ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is often difficult to get a clear picture of your overall health, so experts rely on charts, data, and other measurements to ...

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 ...

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March 12 (UPI) --The U.S. Army will continue to use the antiquated "tape test" to measure soldiers' body composition in spite of a study that shows the test to be flawed. The army has researched ...

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The Pentagon on Monday issued a memo directing the U.S. military to evaluate the body fat of troops using a waist-to-height ratio, replacing traditional height-and-weight tables as the primary measure ...

Builder 2nd Class Liam Mahaney (left), an assistant command fitness leader, takes height and weight measurements from Lt. Clara Lee (right), both assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), ...