NATURAL WAY TO PURIFY AIR
IMPROPER BREATHING
Mil ions of people suffer from a wide variety of ailments that are partly caused by an insufficient supply of oxygen. The problem is that most people do not breathe correctly. Many people are shallow breathers, only filling the top portion of their lungs. When we completely fill our lungs with air the bottom portion of the lungs will push the diaphragm down, and this action will push the stomach out. If your stomach doesn't come out as you breathe, then you are not breathing correctly.
Exercise stimulates you to breathe faster and deeper. Your diaphragm, a dome-shaped sheet of muscle fibers dividing your chest from your abdomen, contracts with each breath and pulls downward. This in turn creates a vacuum in your chest cavity that sucks air into your lungs. Then when your diaphragm muscles relax and rise, the air is pushed out. This forces open mil ions of air cells that you do not use in sedentary living. Vigorous breathing not only brings in the needed oxygen for your bloodstream to carry to the tissues, but it also strengthens and protects your organs against disease and keeps them fit for action. The great advantage of abundance of lung exercise is seen in the fact that professional singers suffer less from lung infections than others.
FRESH AIR AND CHEERFULNESS
OXYGEN KILLS CANCER CELLS
Cancer cells cannot live in the presence of negatively charged oxygen. When exposed to oxygen they die. (3) That tells me that we need to learn to breathe deeply of pure fresh country air. We know that oxygen makes up 21% of the earth's atmosphere, yet researchers have found that the levels have dropped to less than 15% over some metropolitan areas.
WOUNDS HEAL FASTER
It is a well -known fact that wounds exposed to sunshine and fresh air heal more rapidly than when bandaged. In fact, no wound will heal without air. In order, then, for wounds to heal quickly, it is most important that they be exposed to a constant supply of pure fresh air.
THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE
IN CONCLUSION
One of the finest statements I have found written on the importance of air are these words penned by an outstanding health educator: "In order to have good blood we must breathe well- full, deep inspirations of pure air, which fill the lungs with oxygen and purify the blood. They impart to it a bright color and send it, a life-giving current, to every part of the body. A good respiration soothes the nerves; it stimulates the appetite and renders digestion more perfect; and it induces sound refreshing sleep. If an insufficient supply of oxygen is received, the blood moves sluggishly, the waste, poisonous matter which should be thrown off in the exhalations from the lungs is retained, and the blood becomes impure.
Not only the lungs, but the stomach, liver, and brain are affected. The skin becomes shallow; digestion is retarded; the heart is depressed; the brain is clouded; the thoughts are confused; gloom settles upon the spirits; the whole system becomes depressed and inactive, and peculiarly susceptible to disease." (3) As you can readily see, the health of the whole body depends in part upon the healthy action of the respiratory organs and the kind of air we breathe. Man can live weeks without food, days without water, but only minutes without air
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(1) Science Newsletter 85:374; June 13, 1964
(2) Zane Kime: Sunlight Could Save Your Life; pg. 192, 193; 1980.
(3) Eddy, W. H., et al. "The Effect of Negative lonization on Transplanted Tumors"; Cancer Res. 1:245; 1951.
(3) E. G. White, Ministry of Healing, pg. 272-273, 1905.