Archive for August, 2011
Your Nose Is For Breathing Your Mouth Is For Eating
There are several reasons why it is obvious that your nose is designed to be breathed through. Firstly, your nose is like an air conditioner for your lungs. Air that passes through your nose on the way to your lungs is filtered by the nose. Your nose will massively reduce the amount of dust, pollens, bacteria, virus, or anything else that is floating in the air.
These things would cause major problems if there were allowed to flow straight down into the lungs. The nose is designed to handle them. It is your first line of defense. If you breathe through your mouth you do not use these defenses.
Top Tips For Living A Healthy Life
1. Give up smoking
Quit smoking. It is THE single best thing you can do for your health. Cigarettes contain around 400 toxic substances and 60 known or suspected cancer-causing agents, not forgetting the aging effects that cigarettes have on the skin. Don’t fall for the ‘my grandma smoked 40 a day and lived till she was 93 years old’ mind set – this may well be true for 1 in 100,000 cases, but the other 99,000 all died of lung related diseases.
The scientists have finally agreed on this one. There is irrefutable evidence that smoking causes serious harmful effects to human health and, since the early 60′s when the first announcements were being made, there has been a steady increase in the number of people trying to give up smoking. There are still many teenagers who continue to smoke because of peer pressure and the need to portray a more adult image, hopefully this number will reduce over time.
Self-Defense: What You Need to Know
In the world in which we currently live, it is now necessary that one knows how to properly defend themselves or their loved ones if they are in danger of being hurt. This article will become useful if you want to increase your knowledge of basic self-defense and techniques used to fight off an attacker. You are going learn what self-defense is, why it is needed, basic self-defense moves, and weapons that can be useful if needed.
Self-defense refers to the use of violence to protect oneself and is a legal right that you have. You`ve seen it in the movies. A pretty girl is in a parking lot, some guy attempts to rape, she kicks him in the groin, and she runs to safety. This is just an example of a situation where self-defense would be necessary. You should always plan ahead to a possible attack, always being aware of your surroundings, and preparing to run if possible.
The Gift of ADD: Gremlin Or Ipod
Through out the online ADD Community there is some what of an on going debate about whether ADD is a gift. ADD expert Edward Hallowell describes ADD as a gift that needs to be unwrapped. I like to think of ADD more like one of those gifts that I have unwrapped but just have no idea what to do with. It’s also like one of those gifts that I did not ask for but somebody just felt the need to give to me.
ADD reminds me of the movie Gremlins. If I remember correctly Gizmo was a cute fun little guy but had to be cared for by following very specific directions. If those directions were not followed to the “T” all hell broke loose. I supposed the same could be said about a person with ADD. With proper care and feeding people with ADD can thrive. With out proper care and feeding the life of those with ADD can resemble the movie Gremlins.
What Is It All About With The Bird Flu?
The humanity is always being challenged yearly. What good is a year if there has been no major threat to our humanity? It may be quite evil to say, but that’s reality. Every year, there are lots and lots of people who die from diseases, natural calamities or terrorist acts.
It is a quite a scare to consider that one day, it might be us who will be the next victims.