Troops must have a waist measurement close to or less than half their height or risk being placed in their service's remedial ...
The military’s new height to waist standards aim to better measure health and readiness, but raise concerns about fairness, ...
The Pentagon on Monday issued a memo directing the U.S. military to evaluate the body fat of troops using a waist-to-height ...
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How obesity is diagnosed

The most commonly used scale that healthcare providers use to diagnose obesity is called the body mass index. BMI is a simple ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSWO) - The U.S. military is replacing long-standing height-and-weight charts with ‘waist-to-height ratio’ ...