Tag: asthma

  • Is it asthma?

    Is it asthma?

    A third of asthmatics may have been wrongly diagnosed! What is asthma, are we diagnosing it correctly, and are the drugs prescribed needed? “Doctors are using observations and not proper tests, study warns. ‘Sufferers’ had allergies or heartburn”. Sarah Knapton, Science Editor. One third of people with asthma have been wrongly diagnosed, or their condition…

  • The Breath Connection – the most neglected health promoting factor in medicine today!

    The Breath Connection – the most neglected health promoting factor in medicine today!

    We can live for three weeks without food, three days without water, but only three minutes without breathing, so shouldn’t that be sufficient reason to pay more attention to how we breathe? If that were all, you might not think it worthwhile to consider how you breathe so long as you do! The truth is…

  • Better Breathing Means Better Health

    Better Breathing Means Better Health

    Breathing is the most vital and most social activity in our lives. Professor Konstantin Buteyko claimed over hundred modern diseases were associated with dysfunctional breathing and did you realise that with every breath you take you inhale some of the exhaled air of every living man and animal on the planet! We don’t all eat…

  • Shut your mouth and live a long and healthy life!

    Shut your mouth and live a long and healthy life!

    George Catlin, an American born 1796, is famous for his remarkable record in paintings and notes of native Indians though his great genius has been almost ignored till recent years. In his book entitled “Shut Your Mouth & Save Your Life” written in 1870 he details his assertions that the bad habit of modern man…

  • Does It Matter How I Breathe ?

    Next time you visit your doctor with whatever complaint or condition you are concerned about, take a minute to ask him or her ‘ Does it matter how I breathe ‘ and whether your breathing habits could affect your general health. You may also like to ask why it is that your blood pressure, weight,…

  • Ask the expert about Buteyko

    Wellbeing Magazine speaks to Michael Lingard of Buteyko Kent and Asthma Care Kent Michael Lingard trained as economist, statistician and accountant, working as a Financial Analyst with Fords (UK) Tractors & O & M Consultant and then as Operational Research Consultant with Hawker Siddeley Group Management Services. Having spent two years as university lecturer he…