Role Of Breathing, Exercise and Eating In Our Healthy Life

Breathing, exercise and eating are inter-connected. If I had not gone through several diet and exercise programs, I would not believe the connection that the elements of breathing, exercise and eating share.

The relation of eating and exercise is well known to everyone, but are you may not be aware of the role our breathing plays in providing the body with the oxygen needed for maximum metabolism.

Breathing

This is how the process works. The body needs certain elements to come together to metabolize food and create the right conditions for food breakdown. Oxygen is one such element.

The more oxygen we add to the procedure, the better our metabolic procedure can work to properly utilize the energy from the food we have consumed. It is here that breathing plays a key role in the metabolism.

We can consume more oxygen by deep and more efficient we breathing. The more oxygen we consume, the more we provide to the metabolic process.

Exercise

Exercise conditions our body to keep it in perfect shape. To keep muscles functioning properly and build muscles. The more muscle we build, the more calories we burn. The more calories we burn, the better our metabolism is at using up the calories we take in through food consumption.

Can you begin to see how our body is really a well functioning machine? It’s a continual circle of events, one feeding off the other. When all the events are coming together properly, we are healthy, happy individuals.

Educating our Children

It’s only when mistreatment of the system begins to occur, that we put our bodies in risk. Perhaps is we educated our children, while they are young, about the hazards of mistreating their body, we would have better equipped young adults.

We educate them about the risks of household appliances that are incorrectly operated, about the danger of reckless driving, and improper operation of the car they’re driving.

But, we just don’t take the time to educate them about the most important piece of equipment they will ever operate i.e. their own body. Exercise, breathing properly and healthy eating are the ingredients vital to the proper operation of the body.

Of all the things we ever learn, of all the thoughts we ever entertain, or the abilities we acquire as we grow, our health and the means to maintain it, are the most important.

Nothing else works unless our mind and body have been kept in good working condition. For a paralyzed person, so many of the choices they could make about how to spend their time, playing sports, skiing, or swimming, have been taken away.

The same is true for someone who has mistreated their body to the point of being an invalid; so many of the choices that could have been made to enrich their lives, have been taken away.