For bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts, changing body composition often reflects hard work and discipline—but knowing body composition is useful for anyone, and for more than just bragging rights.

When she got her first job as a sports dietitian at the University of Oregon in 2011, Rachel Manor was tasked with putting teams of student athletes through the Bod Pod. Basketball players and track ...

Adiposity—or the accumulation of excess fat in the body—is a known driver of cardiometabolic diseases such as heart disease, ...

One important aim of a laboratory in a center such as the Children’s Nutrition Research Center is the dissemination of information to other investigators as well as to the general public. This ...

A fully automated and normalized body composition analysis of abdominal CT has promise to augment traditional cardiovascular risk prediction models. According to ARRS' American Journal of ...

A soldier receives a 3-D body scan at Fort Bragg, N.C. on Oct. 18, 2021. The scan/study is part of a comprehensive body composition study examining the association between body composition and Soldier ...

The Marine Corps has formally kicked off a scientific study that may upend one of the most maligned aspects of life in the service: height and weight standards that many complain are outdated and ...

Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Samuel Hill weighs Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Perrin during body composition assessments aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln. (MCS Joey Sitter/Navy) Later ...

The second phase of data collection for the U.S. Army’s Body Composition Study will take place at Fort Lee, Va. Feb. 5-11. The U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training (USACIMT), with the U.S.