A healthy body fat percentage is between 14% and 31% for women and 10% to 25% for men. However, these are just averages and ...

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 ...

Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that more than two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, and the numbers keep climbing in our children. Although we ...

Thanks to the ever-improving world of fitness trackers and apps, you've never had more access to personal health data. But which of the dizzying number of markers and metrics should you really be ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's height and ...

For years, body-mass-index (BMI), has been the health metric millions of us have been fixated on when it comes to determining the state of our health. But now experts say we should be focusing on ...

The Army is wrapping up research on how best to measure a soldier's body fat -- but the service's controversial tape test might not be dead yet. The Army is in the midst of totally revamping health ...