Health tools

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• Calculating BMI (body mass index), women and men

  Adult BMI calculation from weight and height, with the table of categories published by the WHO.

• Calculating your basal metabolic rate (calories at rest)

  Basal metabolic rate at rest, with Mifflin-St Jeor (1990) and Harris-Benedict revised by Roza and Shizgal (1984).

• Calculating your body fat percentage (circumference method)

  Estimate of body fat percentage from neck, waist and hip circumferences (Hodgdon and Beckett, 1984).

• Calculating your VO2max: Cooper test, heart rate and table

  Two VO2max estimates: distance covered in 12 minutes (Cooper, 1968) or ratio of heart rates (Uth, 2004).

• Calculating your sleep cycles: bedtime and wake-up time

  Bedtime or wake-up time from an average of 90 minutes, with the 60 to 120 minute range published by the French Inserm.

• Cardiac coherence: guided exercise, method and benefits

  5-minute breathing guide at 6 cycles per minute. It is not a measurement and it is not a treatment.

• Calculating your running pace: time, distance, speed

  Pace, speed and time from distance and stopwatch. Arithmetic calculation, with no medical formula.

• Assessing a loved one's risk of falling: questionnaire and simple tests

  The 12 questions of the CDC STEADI Stay Independent brochure, with the published points. It is not a diagnosis.