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 discoveries of Columbus and Vasco da Gama helped the port also. Portugal also has cele 18brated, in an elaborate issue of stamps, the voyage of Vasco da Gama to India. Vasco da Gama had a powerful armament, could obtain pilots, and knew where he was going.