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

ROME — Skip the bathroom scale. Scientists say a simple tape measure around your waist might be the best predictor of how your body will hold up as you get older. A study of nearly 11,000 people found ...

(CNN) -- Heart attack survivors who carry extra weight around their belly are at greater risk of another heart attack, new research has found, another reason why measuring your waist may be more ...

Troops must have a waist measurement close to or less than half their height or risk being placed in their service's remedial ...