Breathers of the lost art: How to live longer by breathing better
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By: Mark Broatch
Good breathing is the key to living longer, says US science journalist and author James Nestor, but humans are among the worst breathers on the planet. By Mark Broatch. Humans are in a mess. We live sedentary lifestyles, eat poorly and too much, and we sit in our workplaces for eight hours a day hunched over our keyboards, all of the time hardly ever taking a proper breath. A large percentage of the population suffers from chronic nasal obstruction, and perhaps half of us are habitual mouth breathers. Most children have some degree of deformity in their mouths and noses. Forty-five per cent of adults snore occasionally, and a quarter of the population snores constantly.