How to Use basal metabolic rate in a Sentence

basal metabolic rate

noun
  • Strength training has been shown to increase the basal metabolic rate.
    — Ana Morales, Vogue, 21 July 2023
  • Having a fever can also affect a person’s basal metabolic rate.
    — Terezie Tolar-Peterson, The Conversation, 28 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • That is because body weight times 30 is a simple estimate for the basal metabolic rate.
    — Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
  • Jeor formula that shows the basal metabolic rate in kilocalories per day.
    — Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In addition, their basal metabolic rate, which had declined by the end of the competition, was still below baseline six years later.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • But research suggests that your basal metabolic rate does not really begin waning until you near retirement age.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • And what exactly is basal metabolic rate, or resting metabolism?
    — Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Read on for the complete details of calculating your basal metabolic rate, why knowing your BMR matters, and more from experts.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The evolutionary innovations were an avian-style respiratory system and a high basal metabolic rate.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2010
  • This model from Etekcity can determine 14 different biometrics like bone mass, basal metabolic rate, heart rate, body mass index, and more.
    — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Foundational research from the 1980s and 1990s based on the 23-day Tour de France bike race set that limit at four to five times a person’s basal metabolic rate (BMR), defined as the energy required to maintain the body at rest.
    — Jason Dinh, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025

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