Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of energy your body needs to function at rest. This accounts for about 60 to 70 percent of calories burned in a day and includes the energy required to keep the heart beating, the lungs breathing, the eyelids blinking and the body temperature stabilized.
Vasco Da Gama Found a route from Portugal east to India by going around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa. He set up trade in India and eventually became the Portuguese Viceroy in India.
The first European explorer was Portuguese sailor Bartholomew  Diaz reached Cape of Good Hope (1488); and Vasco de Gama was the  first to sail around Africa (November 1497â¦) and reach India (May 20  1498).