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.
His main voyage. He left Lisbon in 1497, his voyage was very long. He and his crew stopped at many trading posts along the way like Mozambique, Kenya and Mombasa. He arrived in India in 1498. Vasco da Gama established a tarding post there.