Oxygen Starvation
Suppose you are very hungry and sit down to enjoy a well-planned, nourishing meal . . . but as soon as you have eaten only a few bites of the food, someone snatches it away and tells you that you can’t have any more! What would you think of the food-snatcher?
This is exactly what you do to yourself when you shallow breathe as most people do, using only 4 to 3 of your lung capacity! This starves your body more than if you were depriving it of food. You are robbing your body of its most vital, invisible nourishment – oxygen.
Oxygen is essential to the ionization process, in which food molecules are broken down into nutrients suitable for the body’s vital needs. Without sufficient oxygen your body cannot properly utilize the food you eat and drink, no matter how basically nourishing the food may be.
With an insufficient supply of life-giving oxygen, your bloodstream becomes saturated with poisonous carbon dioxide and other toxic wastes. It transports these toxins throughout your body (collecting more en route), thereby suffocating your cells (also dulling brain cells), instead of rejuvenating them with sufficient life-giving oxygen.
Your brain, which requires three times more oxygen than the rest of your body, suffers first. Philip Rice, M.D., who is a specialist with delinquent children, warns:
“55% of the delinquent behavior in minors can be attributed to oxygen starvation.”
Oxygen starvation is caused by shallow breathing, sedentary habits and a lack of exercise and fresh air. Educators who are alarmed about the decrease in the average student’s IQ would do well to promote school physical education, exercise and sports. Tests and analyses are not brain food, but life-giving oxygen is!
