Breathe and Be Well

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1916 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII NEW TISSUES FOR OLD--REJUVENATING THE BODY AND SKIN Many men and women are aged simply through weak activity of those organs and functions which can, under proper conditions, make and put into circulation new red blood cells. It is sad folly for one who is overfat and worried about facial wrinkles, to accept these conditions as necessarily accompanying years. The hopeless resignation to the idea that one must become wrinkled and stiff-jointed, loose the cheeks of youth, become stale in health and agility, is the very sure way of getting into this state. One may merge into the sixties and seventies as gracefully and as happily as into the thirties. There are the same forces for making red cheeks in the woman of sixty as in the girl of sixteen. But generally we find in the older woman that the redblood making power is working only on half-time and without any care or supervision. There is no mystery or occult knowledge of the way the proper breathing habits can rejuvenate the failing body and organs. That such renewal can be brought about by developing the breathing organs and muscles will be readily understood by the following explanations based upon very recent discoveries and experiments. The increase in the number of red blood cells in the body is brought about by mechanical means. This mechanical work is done by the body itself, but is not completed without assistance on your part. The condition of the blood always adjusts itself to a variety of bodily and environmental factors. As an example: When you go up into the mountains there is a decrease in atmospheric pressure. This means that the whole body is released from a certain weight or pressure it had to withstand in a low altitude. This release from a certain amount of atmospheric pressure...