EATING FOR BREATHING EASY
from The Blue Mountains Gazette
How breathless do you feel when you overeat? What foods literally “take your breath away” or maybe even induce an asthma attack? Do you find that if you eat when you are worried or nervous that you feel nauseous as well as breathless? Do you eat in a rush, while watching television, standing up, reading, and arguing or when very tired?
Consider this; we eat maybe three times a day yet we breathe 20,000 to 30,000 times per day. Over breathing leads to ill health, so, if what and how you eat increases you respiratory rate to an unhealthy level then the physiological damage may go well beyond your own guilt feelings of “pigging out”.
Eat only when hungry and only enough to satisfy. Select only natural foods that make you feel energetic after eating. Put some time into researching healthy eating such as investing a few dollars in Ruth Maier’s “the freedom foods cookbook”. This is a wonderful publication with recipes for people with food intolerances. I particularly like the advice she gives to asthmatics – “Practice breathing exercises to help you cope with panic attacks and respiratory distress.” I could add that – the better your breathing the better your digestion will be.
The human body was not designed to live on the over abundant, over processed, over wheat, over sugared diet that is causing general obesity and a myriad of diseases. As a Buteyko Breathing Practitioner I can affirm that wheat and sugar are definitely not good for people with breathing difficulties.
We should eat to live not live to eat! Food should invigorate you. Your lifestyle should give you a healthy appetite. Are you stressed, tense, and anxious, out of breath or out of energy? Come and enjoy a complementary class session of Pilates (Buteykolates) or book in for a private consultation on breathing, lifestyle and exercise with Jennifer Harris.
If you need to de-stress, reenergize, breathe healthily, firm up, stretch out and relax, or need more information about Buteykolates, Chi Ball, dance classes, remedial breathing classes for conditions such as asthma, allergies, bronchitis, sinusitis, sleep apnoea, snoring, chronic mouth breathing etc phone Jennifer Harris BIBH FATD on 0414 833 857 or visit Jennifer’s website at www.pnc.com.au/~breatheasy or email breatheasy@pnc.com.au .