Tag: Lung Health

The bug spares no one and once you catch it, be ready for a week of sneezing, a runny nose, body pain, and chest congestion....

Breathlessness is medically known as dyspnea. It is characterized by shortness of breaths. Breathlessness is a common symptom associated with many pulmonary conditions. This...

Ditching regular sugar-sweetened soda is the first thing you do when you try to lose weight. And you start consuming diet soda, believing that...

Whenever we come down with a cold, one of the worst things we have to deal with is chest and nasal congestion. When our...

Yoga isn’t just for women. Men are more prone to heart problems, but a regular practice can offer protection. It’ll reduce blood pressure and heart rate, two major factors of heart disease. Yoga also increases lung capacity, balance, and muscle strength. This is great news for athletic performance! These benefits even decrease the risk of injury, whether you’re lifting weights or boxing. Are you nervous about attending a class? Try yoga at home first.

Driving every day has quite a severe impact on your life and health, more than what's obvious. Even if it's for less than half an hour, you ruin your health over the long term. You spend precious time that can otherwise be used to make your life better; increase the risk of high blood pressure, obesity, chronic body pain, asthma and lung disorders; go through extreme stress; and face anger management issues.

The breathing issues in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung diseases can be easily managed with proper supervision and adequate health care. And with some breathing exercises, you can ease the breathing and also help improve the functioning of different muscles. Such exercises include the diaphragm exercise that helps the lung muscles, the deep and coordinated exercises for breathing, the pursed lip exercise that focuses on the capacity of the lungs to hold air, and the huff cough exercise that deals with the mucus formation in COPD.

Forming a bride-like structure by arching your back off the ground and shifting your body weight to your shoulders and feet can benefit you in many ways. Improved blood circulation, toned glutes and hamstrings, a healthy spine, and stimulated lungs and thyroid gland are some of the obvious benefits. Like all yoga asanas, the bridge pose too helps you feel stress free.

The placenta is an organ in the mother’s uterus that is responsible for providing necessary nutrition to the growing baby. It also helps in...

Bokwa fitness is a style of aerobics infused with South African and hip top tunes. It’s a high-intensity exercise that will help you burn calories. You’ll also be able to build muscle strength, since your own body serves as a weight. Additional benefits of Bokwa include improved lung capacity, stronger bones, and even appetite suppression. Bokwa is extremely simple and doesn’t require choreography, so it’s easy enough for anyone to do.

Wheezing is whistling sound that’s produced when you breathe and usually indicates respiratory problems. Medical conditions like asthma, cardiac asthma, bronchiolitis, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, acute bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and gastroesophageal reflux disease can cause it. So can a foreign object stuck in your airways and reactions to medications or insect bites.

Chlorine is used to prevent bacteria and algae contamination but it can also harm your health. When chlorine is added, the water’s pH needs to be adjusted with soda ash. If there isn’t enough, the pH will decrease and cause dental erosion. Chlorine and its by-products are also linked to respiratory irritation, chest tightness, headaches, and poor lung function. If a baby or kid frequently swims, they’ll have a higher risk of asthma, bronchiolitis, and allergies.

If you’ve seen lobelia plants, you’ll agree with me that they are indeed beautiful ornamental plants. There are many varieties of this species, most...

Chin acne is caused by hormonal imbalances like polycystic ovary syndrome, thyroid problems, stress, and menstruation. Hormonal acne may also show up on the jawline, but pimples here are usually from digestive issues. Fiber and probiotics can help. Breakouts on the nose and T-zone point to liver problems, while forehead acne means poor kidney function. Avoiding dehydration will fix this. Poor lung health may cause cheek acne. If breakouts are on the lower cheeks, mouth and gum problems are likely.

Naturopathy is a form of alternative medicine that adopts a drug-free approach to disease prevention and treatment through exercise, diet control, massage, and more....