10 Top ways to keep LUNGS healthy and active

10 Top ways to keep LUNGS healthy and active

Everyone wants to be healthy and active...but this is actually happens when you take care yourself properly and maintain a healthy life style...and eat healthy food and take high protein and less carbohydrates.
Here I talk about 10 most basic things about lungs health .... If you adopt these things ...absolutely you will attain a healthy lungs as well as a healthy lifestyle...
So lets start....

1: Stop Smoking 

Smoking is the main reason of lungs disease. Smoking weakens the lungs gradually by causing severe fatal disease like pneumonia. It also cause severe coughing. Burning of tobacco produces more than 35,000 harmful chemicals, including nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tars. These harmful chemicals can transform normal healthy cells to cancerous cells. Actually Smoking is dangerous for all organs of body.
So, If you smoke ! Please stop it !

2: Morning Walk

This is most important part of healthy lifestyle. Morning Walk produces many positive effects in our body. According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, regular 35-minute walk increases lung capacity. This also help in strengthens the lungs. With increased lung capacity, you will breathe easier, and your lungs will stay healthier and active longer. Morning Walk also boost your immune system and energy level. It also increase bone density and strengthens the joints.

3: Take Steam therapy 

You must take Steam to keep your lungs healthy... steam inhalation, includes inhaling of water vapour to open the airways and help the lungs to drain mucus and keep lungs clean. Steam therapy helps in elimination of congestion and inflammation in the lungs and provide relief in asthma, bronchitis and allergy. Take a bowl of hot water and put it below your head, take a clean towel and put it on your head. Now inhale a long breath and stop the breath for 10 seconds in your lungs and then exhale it. Repeat this process for 10 minutes. This is very helpful in cleaning of your lungs.

4: Intake of protein 

You must take high quantity of protein instead of carbohydrates. Eat good source of protein like milk, meat, nuts, fish and cheese for twice a day to help in maintaining strong respiratory muscles. Every muscle and cell in your body needs protein to build up. Protein also strengthens your immune system, making you less susceptible to sickness and diseases.

5: Lukewarm water 

You must staying hydrated by taking enough water to keep your mucosal lining thin. Lungs work better with thin mucosal lining. Dehydration can cause these mucus to thicken and get sticky, which leads  to thick mucosal lining.  Water also boost your immune system which makes you stronger against diseases. Water also speed up the daily metabolic reactions in the body.

6: Green tea

Green tea also very helpful in cleans your lungs by increasing the detoxification mechanism of lungs. Green tea contains too many antioxidants that help reduce inflammation in the lungs. These antioxidants also protect lung tissues from the harmful effects of smoke inhalation.

7: Apple 

Apple is rich in antioxidants which helps in purify the mucosal lining and also repair the damaged lungs by smoking. Apple helps in protecting your lungs from environmental pollutants.

8: Diaphragmatic breathing 

You must do it because diaphragmatic breathing strengthens your lungs. This is very effective for lungs, it improve a pulmonary function, cardiorespiratory function, respiratory muscle length, and respiratory muscle strength. It also helps in maintaining blood pressure.

9: Avoid sugar

You must stop taking sugar because sugar hasn’t even a single benefit but have lot of drawbacks/harms for body. Such as too much Intake of sugar leads to inflammation of lungs and results to asthma

10: Avoid junk food 

All you know about the drawbacks of junk food. Junk food like oily food, packaged and processed food put very harmful effects on our body. Extra calories from junk food leads to obesity. And obesity/overweight increases respiratory problems including, asthma ,coughing and shortness of breathing. Extra weight also produce bad effect on heart.

Important Note

If your lungs are damaged, or if you have a serious illness like lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease you may experience these symptoms:
• Shortness of breath during daily activities
• Pain sensation during  breathing
• Regular cough
• breathing heavily with a whistling sound durin exercise
• Cough during exercising
• Pain in the airway tduring inhaling and exhaling )
• A feeling of "toughness" in the chest
See your family doctor if you experience any one of these symptoms. Doctor can run test to point out the cause, or refer you to a special treatment if needed.
Thanks!