What Is BMR – Basal Metabolic Rate?
• BMR- Basal Metabolic Rate is the minimum number of calories a body needs to stay alive. It’s different for everyone. • Factors like age, weight, heredity, body fat percentage and gender are all affecting factors. Perhaps you have heard the term basal metabolic rate (BMR) and wondered what it means. BMR is the number of calories minimum that the body needs simply to keep stay alive. For example, the BMR is the number of calories a body would need to spend 24 hours asleep in bed. This number will depend on many things and will determine weight along with diet and level of exercise. The BMR includes the number of calories used for activities like breathing, to maintain the heat pumping, brain function, temperature stabilization and other functions that occur in the body while asleep. The calories burned when awake and moving are not included in the BMR. Factors that affect BMR include genetics, age, weight, gender, external temperature, internal temperature, body surface area, body fat
