Health Tools and Tips

• Healthcare tips for parents visiting USA - General Healthcare tips for parents, relatives and/or friends visiting the United States (US).
  
  
• Ten Tips for Parents Visiting their NRI Children in the U.S. - 10 general everyday tips to give parents traveling to U.S for the first time or subsequently.
  
  
• International Traveler Safety Tips - Tips and suggestions to make your international / domestic travel smooth and memorable for all the right reasons.
  
  
• 10 Essential Health Tips - Tips and suggestions essential to improve or maintain good health in general.
  
  
• 10 Reasons to Drink More Water - Tips and suggestions explaining the benefits of increasing your daily consumption of water.
  
  
• Basal Metabolic Rate calculator(BMR) - Basal Metabolic Rate(BMR) is the mimimal caloric requirement needed to sustain life in a resting individual. This is the amount of energy your body would burn if you slept all day (24 hours).
  
  
• Body Mass Index calculator(BMI) - Body mass index (BMI) or Quetelet Index is a statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height. It was invented between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath, Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics".
  
  
• Body Fat estimator - Body fat measurements and the measuring tape are recognized as superior methods for measuring "weight loss".
  
  
• Body Calories calculator - A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. The unit's name is French and derives from the Latin calor (heat). In most fields, it has been replaced by the joule, the SI unit of energy. However, it remains in common use for the amount of energy obtained from food.
  
  
• Waist Hip Ratio calculator(WHR) - Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is the ratio of your waist circumference to your hip circumference (calculated by dividing the waist circumference by the hip circumference). WHR is a measurement tool that looks at the proportion of fat stored on your waist, and hips and buttocks.