Hi There, Welcome to my DIY page. Help yourself to my  Nutrition Tool Chest and feel free to play with ALL the nuts and bolts of Nutrition. There a lot of DO IT YOURSELF (DIY) Health and Nutrition activities that you may  do yourself by just clicking on the link. Whether you want to find out your BMI ( Body Mass Index) or gauge calories of some common food or set up a fitness routine for your specific needs, there is a LINK for you. I will be adding links every week so please check back often. Twit this post if you think it may help others. Thanks for visiting !!

Calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI)

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a relationship between weight and height that is associated with body fat and health risk. BMI correlates with the amount of body fat.

Calculate Your  Daily Energy Requirement  (DER) calorie energy needs

Calculate Your Daily Energy Requirement (DER)
BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) + AMR (Active Metabolic Rate) = DER

Calculate calories burnt doing your favorite activity

 This is an awesome Excercise Calculator. Just enter in your weight and time spent on your favorite activity and it will calculate calories burnt. remember to lose one lb of fat, you need to burn 3500 calories.

Visual gallery of calories of different foods
This is one of my favorite links. It is a beautiful visual gallery of calories in common foods that we eat.  Images come to life when you see them in full color and can visualize just how many calories are in your foods.

Calculate Nutrient information for common foods that you eat

If you want to go one step further than the visual gallery, this link is for you. Calculate calories, protein, fat, calcium, sodium and much more by just plugging in your favorite food. Nutrition Facts Label (NFL) available for all common foods.

                Children’s Healthy Weight Calculator

The kid’s health BMI Calculator. BMI is the only accurate measure of a child’s weight.

               

                  Food Tracker

 Track what you eat daily using ” My Plate” guidelines.

    

                   Shop Smart

 Grocery shopping tracker to help you find healthier alternatives.

 

 

Please check back next week, I will be adding more interesting links.