Tag: breathing
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The fundamentals of a healthy life
Health is simple, and complex! The fundamentals of a healthy life are very simple, but we do like to complicate things. If the secret of great health and longevity were that simple how could “Health Care” become a multi billion pound industry? Only when “Health Care” is made complex and too difficult to understand for…
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The connection between breathing and your diet
What’s the Connection Between Your Breathing and Your Diet? Many people, including myself, would not have believed there was any significant connection between what we eat and the way we breathe. This would be understandable for the general public though not surely for someone like myself who has specialised in two important health promoting fields…
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Simply good health
KISS – keep it simple stupid! I often wondered why it is that most professions make life complicated? Is it because most professionals really believe their work is extraordinarily complex and it will be too much to expect others to understand their work? Is it because they have been convinced that with their long training…
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Health without medicine
Health without medicine – the high road or low road of living Might it be possible to live a healthy active life to ninety without medical support? Why have we all become used to the idea that our health is dependent on medicine or surgical intervention? Is it really possible to go through our lives…
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Breathe less for a longer life!
“The more you breathe the closer you are to death. The less you breathe the longer you will live.” Konstantin Buteyko 1923-2003. It seems every mammal is allotted the same number of breaths in their lifetime, roughly 600,000,000. Some whales and certain elephants manage on as few as four breaths per minute and can live…
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Everything constantly changes!
Everything constantly changes. If we look at nature we see some of the most obvious constant changes – the seasons, the weather. Our relationships, our jobs, and our bodies change too. We usually cope with small daily changes quite well – the ebbs and flows of daily life. However there are the more dramatic changes…
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Better breathing, better health, clearer mind
Do you ever think about your breathing; the way you breathe? Is it something you don’t consciously think about, even though unconsciously you trust your body to keep you breathing? Maybe the only time you pay attention to the way you breathe is when you’re having difficulty drawing breath. I’ve been made aware of the…
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Healthy teeth and health through better breathing
Healthy teeth, normal facial development and better health through better breathing, will be the focus that The Breath Connection and The Clinic for Facial Orthotropics based in Purley, London, will be working together to promote. All children who are habitual mouth-breathers will have a malocclusion. The mouth breathers’ maxillae and mandibles are foreshortened. Palatal height…