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The Importance of Clean Air to Health
It is essential to breathe clean air – air that’s as free as possible from such chemicals as smog, car exhaust, natural gas appliance fumes and the many other toxic chemical pollutants. Also, our air needs to be as free as possible from mold, dust, dust mites and their fecal matter, animal dander and pollen. Everyone’s health is helped in varying degrees by clean air. It is vitally important to live and work in an area which has clean air and which is free of all harmful fumes. It is also equally important to keep our homes pure, clean and free from dust, dust mites and debris! Most people cannot be truly 100% healthy and well until they breathe clean air, maintain a healthy diet and live a healthy lifestyle.
Pollutants Threaten the Lungs of All Life
Every living thing breathes. In the marvelous balance of Mother Nature, plants breathe in carbon dioxide through the pores in their leaves and give off vital oxygen – while animals inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Both thrive in a healthy, natural balance.
Unfortunately, humans have played havoc with this natural balance by destroying forests and covering grass with pavement. They continue to poison our already overburdened air with pollutants from motorized traffic and heavy industry. Wildlife, when it survives slaughter by humanity, suffocates in such polluted air. Fish die in polluted waters. How long can people survive in the midst of these environmental poisons which they continually create? This is a question of great concern to us. Read the classic book Silent Spring by our friend Rachel Carson, available in most libraries. If followed, her wise advice would have saved
Breathing is the first place, not the last; one should look when fatigue, disease or other evidence of disordered energy presents itself. – Dr. Sheldon Hendler, The Oxygen Breakthrough
Live Longer Breathing Clean Air Deeply
We advise those who have to live or work in smoggy, polluted cities to obtain a good air filter. We especially recommend filters which contain charcoal and a high efficiency particulate HEPA air filter. The charcoal removes most of the chemicals and the HEPA filter removes most of the particles. To be effective in an average room, the flow rate through the filter should be over 200 cubic feet of air per minute. The wise motorist will also install an air filter in his car for cleaning the air while driving in air-polluted cities. Auto stores and catalogs usually stock them.
When we are born, our lungs are new, fresh, clean, and rosy in color. If we could live in a pollutant and dust-free atmosphere breathing deeply all our lives, then our lungs would remain as good as new for a long life of use. Yet most people abuse their lungs! Some of this comes from external causes. The lungs and skin are the only organs of the body which are directly affected by external conditions, specifically, the air breathed into the lungs!
Mother Nature and God provide protection against a normal amount of dust contamination: tiny nose hairs serve as filters, and moist mucus in the passages leading to the lungs traps dust particles that we expel through the nose or mouth. The tonsils also serve as important guards to trap germs. The lungs protect themselves remarkably well by expelling carbon dioxide through oxygenation and by discharging toxins into the blood for elimination via the kidneys. Your body is a miracle!
Unfortunately, most civilized people today live in very unnatural conditions. Almost everywhere there are abnormal pollutants in the air we breathe, especially in urban areas. Our lungs are often overloaded with more contaminants than they can handle. These are passed into the bloodstream and to other parts of the body. Modern city dweller’s lungs become brownish from car smog, soot, etc. Even in most farming areas, the lungs must contend with pollens, excessive dust, poisonous pesticides, fertilizers, and other toxic chemicals. (Air purifiers and vitamin C helps.) Shocking deadly fact: smog kills over 300 people yearly in #1 smog-riddled
Tobacco – Enemy of Your Heart and Health
Whether it’s cigarettes, cigars or pipes, tobacco is one of the heart’s worst enemies! Here is what Dr. Lester M. Morrison, noted
Tobacco is a poison. Nicotine, the main ingredient of tobacco, is a poison affecting the brain, heart and other vital organs. The tobacco plant is directly related to the deadly nightshade family of plants. Aside from the chief poison, nicotine, there are other well-known poisons present in tobacco: arsenic and coal tar substances and carbon monoxide (when tobacco is burned).
Dr. Morrison also said, Nicotine is the most noxious substance that affects the blood vessels in man. Nicotine is a powerful drug that constricts the arteries, narrowing still more the vital passageways of the blood, already clogged by other toxic residue. The tobacco smoker does double damage to his heart – first, by filling the bloodstream with the harsh poisons of tobacco and, second, by narrowing the arteries and other blood vessels, preventing a free flow of life-giving blood.
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The body has no defense against carbon monoxide produced by smoking. You have read about people committing suicide or being killed by carbon monoxide fumes. Why deliberately breathe them into your lungs? The coal tars in tobacco are the chief poisons responsible for cancer of the lungs, mouth, and related areas of the body. It frightens us to think of what will happen in another 25 years because of the excessive use of tobacco. We are convinced that every smoker will eventually develop lung, throat, or some form of cancer –if heart disease or something else doesn’t kill them first!
The results of a recent federal health study found that cigars are no less hazardous than other forms of tobacco, and therefore needs stronger federal regulation! The absence of such warning labels on cigars could lead consumers to erroneously conclude that cigars don’t carry health risks. Beware – there is no safe form of deadly tobacco! Cigars are becoming tremendously popular and sales have jumped 18% recently. Yet cigar smokers and tobacco chewers face grave risk of diseases such as mouth, throat, esophageal, larynx and lung cancer, as well as coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Fact: cigars contain up to 90 times as much of some cancer-causing agents as cigarettes do!
Emphysema Smothers it’s Victim
Emphysema, another killer disease from smoking, is on the rise. Recent medical reports show that as many as half of all American men are suffering from some degree of emphysema. In this disease, the tars, nicotine and other destructive poisons of tobacco lodge in the lungs’ small air sacs, are causing the sac walls to become very thin or to break down entirely. Soon the blood is no longer able to exchange poisonous carbon dioxide for life-giving oxygen. This self-destructing victim dies of oxygen starvation –being slowly smothered to death from within.
Emphysema is not a quick killer. It creeps up slowly, first with a slight cough – especially on arising. Then it attacks the smoker day and night. Slowly, air sacs are almost completely destroyed. The victim doesn’t die suddenly, but lingers on steadily deteriorating. They are forced to stay near an oxygen tank because the disease is shutting off their oxygen. When the lungs can’t operate any longer even with pure oxygen, the victim then dies.
Our breath is our life! We can live days without water and weeks without food, but only minutes without air. It’s the oxygen in the air we breathe that’s the greatest purifying force in Mother Nature! To get this oxygen into the lungs and bloodstream, we must breathe it in!
Smoking tobacco is against every Natural Law. When you attempt to break a Law of Mother Nature, it will break you! The heart needs large amounts of oxygen to function. Any disease that diminishes oxygen is going to destroy the health of your heart, lungs and entire body.
Most heavy smokers are snorers and are at 1.7 time’s greater risk of heart disease than silent sleepers and at 2.08 times greater risk of stroke and heart disease combined. – Finnish Medical Study
Cigarette smokers have 50% higher atherosclerosis and hypertension deaths!
