Nature

Validity of mid-arm muscular area measured by anthropometry in nonobese patients with increased muscle atrophy and variation of subcutaneous fat thickness

The anthropometric measurement of mid-arm muscular area (MAMA) involves overestimation because of various assumptions, this overestimation being progressive with increasing adiposity. However, the ...
Time

How Toned Arms Became a Status Symbol—And an Impossible Standard

Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: NoSystem images/Getty Images, Jacob Ammentorp Lund—Getty Images, Joel Sorrell—Getty Images, Halfpoint/Getty Images, WayUp Productions/Getty Images, ...