Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the calories your body burns at rest. Knowing your BMR can help determine how many calories you need to lose weight.

News flash: Your body is burning calories all day (and night) long. Yep! By simply existing, you're torching calories. But how many cals you burn to sustain these bodily functions depends on one major ...

The number is much smaller than previous research, which estimated metabolic ceilings as 10 times your BMR. And while extreme ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calculating BMI (Body Mass Index) is one of the best tools for assessing overweight and obesity in the general population. The ...

For more than 30 years we have been wedded to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the sole criterion for deciding whether someone is obese or not. It is used by most health authorities to classify both ...

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 ...