Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army gym goers may soon see shorter lines to use neck exercise machines, as the service announced Monday that it will phase out ...

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BMI, or body mass index, is an outdated measurement that fails to properly identify health risks, according to a new study.

Discover which fitness metrics matter most for meaningful progress. Learn how expert assessment of posture, mobility, ...

The move replaces traditional height-and-weight tables as the primary measure of body fat standards.

For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

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.

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 ...

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 U.S. military will now evaluate body fat using a waist-to-height ratio. (A1C Destinee Sweeney/Air Force) The Pentagon on Monday issued a memo directing the U.S. military to evaluate the body fat ...