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

Here’s what to know about body composition numbers and what these metrics mean for your health and performance.

It is often difficult to get a clear picture of your overall health, so experts rely on charts, data, and other measurements to create a standard definition of health. One such measurement is body fat ...

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

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

Losing weight is one of the most common fitness or cycling goals I hear, and that is not good. Why? Because the belief that lower weight means a healthier person is misguided at best, and at worst ...

Ideal body fat percentage for women Since a BMI calculation is based solely on your height and weight, being female or male does not factor into how that number is calculated. That said, there are ...

Body composition offers a clearer picture of health than weight alone, because it reflects your unique proportions of fat, muscle, bone, and water. Optimizing body composition may help support energy ...

Lowering your body fat percentage is not about deprivation; it is about providing your body with the right signals to ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis by researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia report that full-body strength training workouts are an effective way to reduce body fat ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSWO) - The U.S. military is replacing long-standing height-and-weight charts with ‘waist-to-height ratio’ ...