BMI

Daily Calorie Calculator

After entering you weight, height, age and exercise level, the calculator will give you an estimate of your daily calorie requirements, BMI and ideal weight. If the calculation detects that you are overweight, it will calculate a recommended daily calorie intake and tell you how long it’ll take for you to reach [...]

Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult (16 year and older) men and women.
The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women. Though it does not actually [...]

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Calculator

Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the total number of calories your body requires for normal bodily functions (excluding activity factors). This includes keeping your heart beating, inhaling and exhaling air, digesting food, making new blood cells, maintaining your body temperature and every other metabolic process in your body. In other words, your BMR is all [...]

Health and Fitness Tools

A selection of tools to assist you with your fitness, exercise or weight loss program.
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Calculator
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the total number of calories your body requires for normal bodily functions (excluding activity factors). This includes keeping your heart beating, inhaling and exhaling air, digesting food, making new [...]

10 Real Life Diet Tips

By Kieran on January 24, 2009

Are you tired of diet tips handed out by someone with apparently unlimited income and time? For some of us, it may just not be practical to spend half of our Sunday preparing carefully portioned meals for the rest of the week, or financially feasible to buy all our meals prepackaged in just the right [...]

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What Is the Body Mass Index?

By Kieran on January 20, 2009

The BMI (Body Mass Index) has become a useful tool in managing weight and body fat percentage in the last 20 years. Calculating it requires only simple arithmetic and can be performed by anyone. It’s important because it provides an objective measurement that, combined with the appropriate scale for age and body type, helps someone [...]

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