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BMI Calculator
By on 12/08/2009 14:02:31
Calculate your Body Mass Index to determine if you're in a healthy weight range
Weight Status Below 18.5 Under Weight 18.5 - 24.9 Normal 25.0 - 29.9 Overweight 30.0 and above Obese
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Calculate Your Calorie Needs
By on 21/12/2010 12:22:29
Our simple formula will help you work out how many calories you need to eat to maintain or lose weight.
rateIf you are female:Age 10-18 years: (Body weight in kg x 12.2) + 746Age 19-30 years: (Body weight in kg x 14.7) + 496Age 31-60 years: (Body weight in kg x 8.7) + 829If you are maleAge 10-18 years: (Body weight in kg x 17.5) + 651Age 19-30 years
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Low-Fat Eating On The Go
By Runner's World on 05/06/2002 20:31:34
Why snack foods needn't be fat foods
cereal 151Cheese 146Crackers 127Biscuits 120Bananas 118Chips 116Bread, white 100Muesli 100Ice cream 96Potato crisps 91Peanuts 84Chocolate 70Doughnut 68Cake 65Croissant 47*Approx. 240-calorie portion
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The Marathon Weight-Loss Mystery
By Pamela Nisevich Bede on 20/12/2011 10:00:00
Why marathon training doesn’t always help runners shed pounds
, toast and maybe a few well-earned biscuits. Oops, you've just eaten 1,200 calories - a few hundred more than you burned on the run.To limit overcompensation - that is, eating above and beyond what you need for recovery and thereby erasing the calorie
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Maximise Your Calorie Burn (Preview)
By Jason Karp on 27/04/2006 13:40:19
Tweak your running to maximise calorie burn - here are two of the five best ways (Non-subscriber preview)
-per-mile expenditure: run 15 miles and you burn an impressive 1,500kcal. You may even burn more than 110kcal per mile, depending on the amount of oxygen you use while running and on your body weight. (It costs more oxygen to transport a heavier person.) Women, alas
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Enduring Questions: What's Your Ideal Weight?
By Amby Burfoot on 08/11/2007 10:21:10
Dropping five pounds will make you healthier and help you run faster - as long as you have them to lose, that is
. If your BMI drops below 18.5, you're at risk of becoming weaker and slower. WEIGHT LOST 5K 10K HALF-MARATHON MARATHON 900g 12.4 secs 25 secs 52 secs 1:45 2.3kg 31 secs 1:02 2:11 4:22 4.5kg
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Maximise Your Calorie Burn - Five Top Ways
By Jason Karp on 27/04/2006 12:18:05
Tweak your running to maximise calorie burn - here are the five best ways
. First, there's the 100kcal-per-mile expenditure: run 15 miles and you burn an impressive 1,500kcal. You may even burn more than 110kcal per mile, depending on the amount of oxygen you use while running and on your body weight. (It costs more oxygen
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Fat-fighting Q+As
By Runner's World on 05/06/2002 20:34:01
Butter or marg, vegetarian or meatie, takeaway or eat at home? Here are the answers to your dilemmas
, the National Cancer Research Institute in Tokyo showed that women who eat meat daily have almost a four times greater risk of getting breast cancer than those who eat no meat.Also, one 11-year study of 11,000 people at Oxford University, published
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Lose 10lbs This Month
By Dave Kuehls on 05/08/2002 20:22:59
How to shed weight the realistic way
-out with a friend who is also trying to lose weight. Youll motivate each other. A 30-min pm/45-min am run will burn more than 1,000 calories in total for a 12-stone man and many of those will be fat calories.Pump up the Weight LossBy adding a once
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Your Loss, Your Gain
By Hal Higdon on 05/06/2002 20:09:26
Tired of lugging that extra weight around? These 30 ways are guaranteed to shift it
later be replaced by fat. Very obese people sometimes can lose a lot of weight (because they have more to lose), but for most of us, a goal of 1-2lbs a week is more realistic.…And write them down Having goals and putting them down on paper is a simple
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