A body composition test measures percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in the body. It can provide a snapshot of your overall health, inform strategies to improve health, and help gauge progress toward ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify how many volunteers researchers are seeking to participate in the study. FORT BRAGG — The bodies of Fort Bragg soldiers are being studied through ...

If you want to know what you're made of, you'll need to be dunked in a tank of water, hooked up to electrodes, pinched or climb half naked into a giant egg like Lady Gaga at the Grammy Awards. In ...

The Army has launched a review of its body fat standards in a high-tech study that aims to understand the relationship between height, weight, fat and fitness. The research study, which began Monday ...

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The scale has never been a friend to Mana Mostatabi. Even back in high school, when she ran a quick 100m on the varsity track team, her BMI – a ratio of weight to height – put her in the overweight ...

A Soldier prepares for the dead lift event of the Army Combat Fitness Test Sept. 23, 2019, at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Thomas Brading/Army) The Army has set a timeline for reforms on how the service ...

The Marine Corps has announced that it is changing the way it determines the body composition of its Marines, becoming the first military branch to move away from the traditional tape test in favor of ...

The Army’s decades-old tape test used to determine whether soldiers meet body fat standards could be on its way out when the service gets the results of a new body composition study launched Monday at ...