Tag: Breathing

Though we don't take breathing correctly as seriously as nutrition, it is just as important for overall health. Improper breathing like mouth breathing disrupts growth and development in children and worsens asthma, bad breath, and allergies. Breathing and nutrition play an equally important role in managing body functions like heart rate or digestion, reducing stress, preventing bronchial asthma, reducing muscle fatigue, and improving immunity. Practice deep breathing and diaphragm breathing.

For most smokers, it's common to light a cigarette when they are feeling down, nervous, anxious, or stressed out. Smoking can seem like it helps...

Stress and anxiety are silent, but deadly killers. They deteriorate the quality of our lives and even affect the way we think and react. Our poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, and modernization are some of the major factors that cause stress and anxiety. But, we can overcome these adversaries by practicing simple methods that prevent and treat these health conditions without using any medications, which frequently trigger potentially dangerous side-effects.

Anxiety is a feeling of fear of loss or hurt and "uneasy anticipation," often when the threat cannot be judged correctly. Is it any wonder...

Factors like body weight, age, gender, and the strength of alcohol affect the duration of alcohol in the body. Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the concentration of alcohol in the blood. Every hour, 0.015 percent of alcohol is passed out from a person's body. Alcohol stays in urine for 12–36 hours while it stays in one's breath for up to 24 hours.

Yoga poses like shoulder stand, plow pose, fish pose, camel pose, cobra pose, bridge formation pose, shoulder-stand pose, and bow pose help balance and regulate the functioning of the thyroid gland. Ujjayi pranayama also works wonders by re-balancing metabolism and improving reflex pathways within the throat to cure thyroid imbalance.

A paleo diet is one of the more bizarre diet trends taking the world by storm. The underlying principle behind this diet is that...

For most people, losing weight is like fighting a battle that they just cannot win. Dragging yourself to the gym; trying to overcome hunger...

In today’s fast paced world, there is no dearth of the stressors that we are left to deal with, in our environment. And whether...

Sepsis is a condition that occurs when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. It occurs due to an immune response triggered usually by a bacterial infection. Sepsis affects millions of people worldwide. Early diagnosis of sepsis can make treatment effective. Hence, it is important for everyone to be aware of the common signs of sepsis.

Anger is a negative emotion that we experience in response to a situation or person that may be causing us to feel threatened or...

A common strength training exercise, weight lifting helps to increase muscle mass, endurance, and strength. To make the most of your lifting workout, it's essential for you to follow proper warm-ups, breathing exercises and core activation while lifting. You have to follow a full range of lifts and make sure that you take enough rest intervals in between sets to maximize the efficiency of your workout.

If stress is messing with your health, channel the power of breathing to relax the body. Start with a simple equal breathing technique that uses counting to focus on breath. Progress to pranayama (yogic breathing), nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) and kumbhaka pranayama (breath retention). Or learn a deep abdominal breathing method. If you prefer a more meditative experience, controlled breathing with imagery could be the technique for you.

Brain freeze develops when a cold substance like ice cream touches the mouth. Blood vessels quickly dilate and constrict, sending pain signals to the brain. Your forehead and sinuses will tense up! To prevent brain freeze, eat cold food slowly. Already have it? Press your tongue or finger on the roof your mouth. Take a sip of warm tea or cover your mouth and breathe. These actions will raise your mouth’s temperature.

Change is the only constant in this transient world. But we often forget that in life. We sometimes become so used to the stability...