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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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