Knowing your BMR can help you more accurately determine the amount of calories you need to eat a day to lose weight. Oscar Wong/Getty Images ...
The minimum number of calories you need for your body to function is called your basal metabolic rate, or BMR. You burn most of your daily calories with zero effort, movement, or even thinking.
Body mass index (BMI) centile is recommended for assessing body fatness in children. We compared the reliability of two methods of deriving BMI centile. A total of 42 dietitians calculated the BMI ...