How to Use basal metabolic rate in a Sentence

basal metabolic rate

noun

• The energy, or calories, your body burns just to keep you alive is called your basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  — Jill Provost, Good Housekeeping, 20 Jan. 2016
• Every person has a basal metabolic rate, or BMR, which is how many calories your body needs to stay alive.
  — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
• That is because body weight times 30 is a simple estimate for the basal metabolic rate.
  — Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
• This gave them an idea of the fish’s basal metabolic rate — that is, how much energy the animals needed to sit around and do nothing.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
• In fact, studies have shown that obese people often have a greater basal metabolic rate than people who are a healthy weight for their body size.
  — Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2022
• In reality, the basal metabolic rate depends on many other factors than just weight, height and age.
  — Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
• This is also why basal metabolic rate decreases with age.
  — Terezie Tolar-Peterson, The Conversation, 28 Dec. 2020
• Having a fever can also affect a person’s basal metabolic rate.
  — Terezie Tolar-Peterson, The Conversation, 28 Dec. 2020
• Jeor formula that shows the basal metabolic rate in kilocalories per day.
  — Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
• The amount of calories your body requires each day is based on your basal metabolic rate, along with your level of physical activity.
  — Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2022
• Researchers have found that in some places with warming water, fish with increased basal metabolic rates can’t get enough energy to adapt and also to conduct important survival tasks, like swimming.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
• When these upper body muscles are pumped up, your posture improves, your basal metabolic rate (BMR) increases, grip strength is better, your everyday tasks are easier, and much more.
  — Jennifer Nied, Women's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• Fighting infection increases a person’s basal metabolic rate — the amount of energy needed at rest per unit of time — and that raises his or her temperature.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• Your basal metabolic rate, or resting metabolism, is the amount of energy or calories your body needs to perform basic functions like breathing and digesting food.
  — Andrea Thelen, Ms, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2018
• And what exactly is basal metabolic rate, or resting metabolism?
  — Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2022
• The evolutionary innovations were an avian-style respiratory system and a high basal metabolic rate.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2010
• The main function of green tea extract is to potentially enhance thermogenesis, raise your body’s basal metabolic rate, and improve lipid and glucose metabolism.
  — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
• Samsung said the sensors can now assess body composition by measuring skeletal muscle, basal metabolic rate, water retention, and body fat percentage.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• One of the supplements, Clenbutrol, is a thermogenic diet pill that increases your body’s internal temperature, ultimately raising your basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  — Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Increasing thermogenesis forces your body to maintain a slightly elevated basal metabolic rate.
  — Dallas News, 20 May 2022
• Of particular interest would be investigation of a possible relationship between the level of basal metabolic rate and individual’s heterozygosity both in general term as well as heterozygosity of specific locus.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011

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