Nutrition Tools

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Body mass index (BMI)
This calculator is a measure of body fat based on your height and weight. It applies to both adult men and women.

Waist To Hip Ratio (WHR)
This calculator is a nutrition tool that helps you calculate whether your current fat distribution is unhealthy.

Our waist size is now considered to be a significant indicator of future chronic lifestyle disorders such as heart disease and diabetes.

Daily Energy needs
This "Daily Energy needs" calculator uses the Harris-Benedict Formula to determine your average daily energy requirements so that you can better control your energy intake.

Daily energy needs calculator is the first step in understanding how many calories your body needs to maintain its current weight, and should you need to lose some weight, where should you begin.

Alcohol calorie calculator
This calculates how many calories you are consuming from alcohol, whether it is simply a glass of red wine or a light beer.
This tool helps you calculate how much weight you are putting on in one year from your alcoholic beverage consumption.

Then make a conscious effort to reduce your alcohol intake and lose weight.

Calories burned / exercise calculator
This is a nutrition tool that calculates the number of calories you burn when doing various exercises..

This tools clearly shows you the benefits accrued from just 30-40 minutes of daily exercise a few times a week.




Target heart rate calculator
This is a nutrition tool that provides you the range at which your sustained physical activity, e.g. jogging, cycling, walking briskly, swimming laps, or any other aerobic exercise, is considered safe and effective for your heart.

It gives you a range of what your maximum heart rate should be. The healthier and fitter your body, the better and higher the percentage.


Lifestyle risk calculator
This is a useful tool that takes into account your personal and family history for various chronic diseases - such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension & cholesterol.

It then also considers your lifestyle habits of smoking, alcohol intake and activity factor before providing you with a ten year risk scenario for developing one of these conditions.