while women were also measured at the hips. Army leaders hope the new way of measuring whether a soldier is overweight is fairer and more accurate than the old tape test. Soldiers can appeal a ...

The Army is adopting a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to its ubiquitous tape test ... affected women. Many soldiers said they felt compelled to take drastic health measures to ...

Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) is better than a tape measure for assessing a woman's ... study compares the two methods for identifying women who should be prescribed compression sleeves and ...