Though BMI was never intended as a measure to be applied to an individual's health, by the 1990s, as panic arose over increasing weights nationwide, Quetelet's metric -- once so obscure that it ...

Greengrocer Steven Thoburn fought the system -- the metric system, that is. And lost. On Monday, the 36-year-old fruit-and-vegetable vendor, dubbed the "Metric Martyr" by the British tabloids, was ...

Mazagon Dockyard in Mumbai will reclaim 10 more acres to expand warship-building, add two basins, and invest ₹5,000 crore in ...

The most accurate way to calculate your VO2 max is in a clinical setting, says Tanayan. “A CPET (cardiopulmonary exercise test) is the gold standard of estimating someone’s VO2 max,” he says. In the ...

The case raised the question of weights and measures to national prominence, and the traders were dubbed the “Metric Martyrs” by the press.

Developed by Yale researchers, the Weight-specific Quality of Life metric aims to provide a more comprehensive and stigma-free assessment of weight loss among veterans.

Wondering why the United States is one of three countries in the world that doesn't use the metric system? The answer will definitely surprise you.

By the time of the Constitutional Convention, it appears that the Weights and Measures Clause was not an attempt to remedy a situation in which various standards obtained in various parts of the ...

Weights and Measures Day Which countries use metric, and which use imperial measurements? A unified measuring system allows people from different nations to trade with one another without doubting ...

THE question of the introduction of the metric system of weights and measures into the United Kingdom has been before the public for more than forty years. An important step in this direction was ...

I have so many recipes in my collection, with new ones added weekly, and many of these recipes are also British. Considering this, I’ve decided it is necessary to have U.S. to Metric Weights and ...