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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's official -- the Army will now assess body fat using a tape measurement around the waist only. The service announced Monday it ...

Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal revealed Entropy, a new biomarker by Temple, capable of measuring the body's real-time ...

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Most people don't have access to a Dexa scan, so the next best thing is a smart scale. "The smart scale can provide an ...

It's the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is denouncing it as a diagnostic tool for obesity. They say ...

I felt a little warm before going to bed the other night, so I thought it would be a good idea to take my temperature. But I didn't have to get up and dig my thermometer out of my cluttered bathroom ...

I've developed an odd fascination with body-measuring technology, especially as it relates to the fashion world. Many companies are working on infrastructure that will hopefully one day let us buy ...

The number on the scale does not tell the whole story. Your body weight does not account for your body fat, muscle mass and bone density, and will not tell how much of it is due to water retention or ...