HOW DO YOU BREATHE?

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 4

HOW DO YOU BREATHE?

If people knew how to breathe, there would be less sickness than there is! Always breathe through the nose, not the mouth. The n'ose is the antechamber to the lungs, and its purpose is to prevent microbes and injurious particles in the air we breathe from entering the lungs. . It is estimated that the air a person breathes in 24 hours contains 57,000 bacteria and other impurities. How important it is, therefore, that the filter provided by nature should be allowed to do its work.

The person who has learned to take deep breaths through the nose, and hold the air in the lungs for a Jong time, can run for a train without danger of heart failure.

Indifference to human life seems horrible, but our own carelessness in breathing is- daily suicide. Bleak winds, damp air, scorching breezes are all. in their turns,. ushered unannounced into the lungs of the person who will not learn how to breathe properly, causing troubles which are totally unnecessary.

The habit of Careless breathing may be exchanged for a habit of correct breathing by giving careful attention to the matter for* a little while, Begin by taking long, deep breaths through the nostrils every night and morning, going into the ODcn'air for the purpose

Take but a few breaths at first, and gradually increase the number’ and the length 6f time you hold the air in the lungs. Try to make the inhalation and exhalation of equal length. In this way you train the lungs, and as they become used to the exercise you can make a practice of taking deep breaths whenever you are in the open air. Thus you will accustom the lungs to the habit of demanding a certain supply of fresh air, and, when they make the demand, you will unconsciously grant it. Bad colds, and oven irAre serious maladies have been cured by proper breathing.