The Pentagon on Monday issued a memo directing the U.S. military to evaluate the body fat of troops using a waist-to-height ...

To pass the new standards, a service member’s waist measurement can be only slightly more than half of their height.

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The Pentagon is shifting from height and weight tables and replacing them with a waist-to-height ratio methodology.

The average waist size for U.S. women is 38.5 inches, indicating widespread abdominal obesity. Larger waist sizes are linked with increased risks of chronic diseases, like heart disease and diabetes.

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While regulators have been testing crash impacts for decades, there’s a dearth of data on women, who face a higher risk of ...