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Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
Silva Lopes, João Baptista da (1849) Memoria sobre a Reforma dos Pezos e Medidas em Portugal segundo o Sistema Metrico-Decimal, Imprensa Nacional, Lisboa. Trigoso, S.F.M. (1815) "Memória sobre os pesos e medidas portuguesas e sobre a introdução do sistema metro-decimal", Memórias Económicas da Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa , vol ...
The degree to which a person is overweight is generally described by the body mass index (BMI). Overweight is defined as a BMI of 25 or more, thus it includes pre-obesity defined as a BMI between 25 and 29.9 and obesity as defined by a BMI of 30 or more.
Peso Pesado 2 is the second season of the SIC entertainment show Peso Pesado (English: Heavy Weight), the Portuguese version of the original American reality television series The Biggest Loser. It premiered on 2 October 2011 and concluded after 13 weeks of emission (72 daily episodes) with the grand finale, on 31 December 2011.
Peso da Régua (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpezu ðɐ ˈʁɛɣwɐ] ⓘ), commonly known as Régua, is a city and municipality in northern Portugal, in the district of Vila Real. The population in 2011 was 17,131 [ 1 ] (of which approximately 10,000 are in the town of Régua), in an area of 94.86 km 2 (36.63 sq mi) km².
Europa regina in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia". Europa regina, Latin for "Queen Europe", is the map-like depiction of the European continent as a queen. [1] [2] Made popular in the 16th century, the map shows Europe as a young and graceful woman wearing imperial regalia. The Iberian Peninsula (Hispania) is the head, wearing a hoop crown.
Given the Paleolithic and Neolithic origins, as well as Bronze Age and Iron Age Indo-European migrations, the Portuguese ethnic origin was mainly a mixture of pre-Celts or para-Celts, such as the Lusitanians [138] of Lusitania, and Celtic peoples such as Gallaeci of Gallaecia, the Celtici [139] and the Cynetes [140] of Alentejo and the Algarve.
Sara, a speaker of European Portuguese. European Portuguese (Portuguese: português europeu, pronounced [puɾtuˈɣez ewɾuˈpew]), also known as Portuguese of Portugal (Portuguese: português de Portugal), Iberian Portuguese (Portuguese: português ibérico), and Peninsular Portuguese (Portuguese: português peninsular), refers to the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal ...