Basal Metabolic Rate 1.0

Basal Metabolic Rate Ebook lets you learn more about the factors that affects the BMR Basal Metabolic Rate is the minimal caloric requirement that we need to sustain life in a resting individual.
Lets look at some factors that affect BMR:
- Age: In youth, the BMR is higher; age brings less lean mass and slows the BMR.
- Height: Tall, thin people have higher BMRs.
- Growth: Children and pregnant women have higher BMRs.
- Body Composition: The more lean tissue, the higher the BMR.
The more fat tissue, the lower the BMR.
- Fever: Fevers can raise the BMR.
- Stress: Stress hormones can raise the BMR.
- Environmental Temperature: Both the heat and cold raise the BMR.
- Fasting/Starvation: Fasting/starvation hormones lower the BMR.
- Malnutrition: Malnutrition lowers the BMR.
- Thyroxin: The thyroid hormone thyroxin is a key BMR regulator; the more thyroxin produced, the higher the BMR.