The US Army is moving to a new way to measure soldiers’ body fat, and officials have acknowledged that some soldiers who had previously passed under the old regulations may now fail under the new.
The Army is changing its tape test – a method to measure soldiers’ body fat by taking the circumference of various parts of a soldier’s body with a measuring tape. The tape test, an often-dreaded practice among soldiers, is used when soldiers’ weights do not fall within the mandated body mass index screening table. Previously, men were taped around their neck and abdomen, while women were taped around their neck, waist, and hips.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that the measurement of waist circumference can help predict who may be at higher risk of developing obesity-related health problems like diabetes and heart disease, but it is not a diagnostic tool to determine body fatness or health. Indeed, the Army said in March that soldiers “with a high volume of lean muscle mass were still at risk of failing the body fat assessment.
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