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The Importance Of Body Fat In The Army

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I serve in the military where healthy is required because if you are overweight or underweight that can affect you on the battlefield and could not only harm you but it could harm the soldiers around you. In the military the way they measure what are weight is supposed to be is measured by are height. For myself I am 76in/6 foot 4. The most I can weigh is 212LBS. Now you will see a lot of soldiers fail there weight stander due to a lot of reason. The Army sees a lot of females fail there weight standards. The Army will then measure your Body Fat Percentages, for males they will measures the necks and the stomach three times All three of those numbers are calculated together and give your body fat percentage. Now if you fail your body fat

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