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How Smoking Affects Your Health

James Fulton 06/06/2016 0 Comments

We all know breathing is essential and directly linked to our health, breathing fresher air provides less polluted oxygen.Breathing sustains life, every time you breathe in precious oxygen it makes everything work inside your body in the right way.

What happens when your smoke a cigarette and inhale smoke instead of air?

As you are inhaling all that smoke from a single puff, you‘re inhaling seven thousand chemicals, more than 200 known carcinogens, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide ammonia amongst others. But it doesn’t just affect your lungs, every puff of a cigarette is causing your heart to pump faster, your blood pressure to go higher. It affects every single organ system in your body. Smoking can even get you bladder cancer.

Addictive nature of cigarettes

Many people think that smoking is just a bad habit, but it is more than just that as it causes all the above-mentioned diseases and health problems with the respiratory system, blood pressure, cardiovascular system. For many people it a very serious addiction.

Smoking affects look

Smoking doesn’t affect just the inside of our body; it also affects the outside too. Skin is the biggest organ on our body as it covers our whole body, and is just important as the heart. Skin is responsible for toxin release and other functions. Cigarettes age your skin faster than anything else.

Smoking deprives the skin of oxygen and nutrients by affecting your blood vessels. The chemicals that you are addicted to, that cigarettes contain, are triggering …

Breathing Exercises For A Better Health

James Fulton 01/06/2016 0 Comments

The time when people usually have problems with their respiratory system is when the season changes, during winter and fall. When they see their immune system is being challenged or compromised it may be too late as the flue or any complications to the respiratory organs, have already occurred.

To prevent this, we can prepare ourselves by focusing on our breathing thus increase our immune system effectiveness as well as lung potential. So doing respiratory exercises before the season changes is a great and easy way to be prepared to avoid viruses and flue.

Three different phases of breeding

Most people breathe high up from their lungs. What we want to do is start breathing from the belly, to do this you must stimulate your stomach with this exercise. Put your both arms onto your belly, on the diaphragm and press on your belly. Pushing your abdomen while breathing in and breathing our, with the pause of 1 to 2 seconds in between, promotes diaphragm breathing.

Next exercise a bit different. Put both of your hands with palms and index finger surrounding the rib cage on the left and right side of your ribs. Hook your hands and push the ribs as you bread in and bread out. The pushing should only give a little resistance to the breathing so don’t use too much force.
[box type=”warning”] The moment when you feel your rib cage is bending, as you bread in and bread out, you should reduce the force that …