Lung capacity and health 10 Articles

by Jane Allyson

Making sure that our lungs stay in tip top condition is one of the most important things that you can do for your yourself. The lungs are a very delicate organ of the body and we expose them every day to potentially harmf...read more

by Erik Van Tongerloo

Lung capacity is always related to breathing. It means in fact the ability to take in oxygen and distribute it to all your cells in your body. Factors like weight, sex, age, and exercise are important to determine if your ...read more

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by Gloria Allen

Over fifteen years ago I was a pack a day smoker, until one morning, I woke up and my breathing sounded, well, not great. I was one of those people that thought that smoking would never get to me because I had taken martia...read more

by EMSalem

Lung capacity has everything to do with how healthy you are. On exhaling You breath out stale air or carbon dioxide and you exchange this stale air for fresh new oxygen when you inhale. This new oxygenated air is carried b...read more

by Renee Dawson

A person usually never worries about their lung capacity unless it has somehow been compromised. Let's face it, healthy people do not think about their breathing. It is something that happens automatically. We inhale, w...read more

by Christobel Rajesh

Lung is a vital organ which is well protected in the thoracic cage. It is the major organ of respiration and it is the reason why we live. The capacity of the lungs varies with each movement of the chest wall to each respi...read more

by Bindu Thomas Thycad

Breathing is one of the critical, vital functions, which takes place in our body, hardly with our conscious thought. In addition, without that function, one cannot survive in this world. The field of respiration has itself...read more

by Leslie Schwab

As one who has over twenty years of experience as a respiratory therapist treating patients with various types of pulmonary disease, I am extremely familiar with the impact reduced lung capacity has on an individual's heal...read more

by Cindy Abbate

Breathing is a good thing. When the lungs stop working the body quickly stops functioning. Your lungs move oxygen into your body from where it is distributed to your cells. If this is poorly functioning you will have pr...read more

by Susan Kliebenstein

When you climb the stairs do you find yourself a little more winded than previously? Do you just chalk it up to being out of shape and a bit older? That may be the case, but this might also be your cue to do something pos...read more