Standing comfortably with your spine straight and feet about shoulder distance apart, open your left hand and place the thumb on your belly button so the palm of your hand is against your lower abdomen. Now place your open right hand over your left, also palm open and over the back of your left hand. Breathe in slowly and feel this part of your lower abdomen expand, which will naturally push your hands outward with your belly. Hold the breath for four seconds and then exhale slowly and feel your lower abdomen contracting inward as the air is released. Thoughts are recognized without judgment and concentration is brought back to breath.
This is a great exercise to practice proper breathing. All too many of us take short and improper breaths. This is a simple way to concentrate and regain the proper breathing techniques we had naturally as an infant.
Experts have told us countless times that spending too much time online chatting with virtual friends is bad for our health because it encourages isolation and leads to a lack of communication with our “real” friends. In this sense, Facebook has often been tagged as the biggest culprit, given its soaring popularity. Nevertheless, social networking is not all bad, as 
As we all know, smoking is extremely damaging to the health of both the smoker and those around him or her. Still, even if smoking can cause lung cancer and pulmonary diseases, and decrease the response time of the immune system when dealing with infections, it can also prevent allergies, a new study comes to show, as quoted by Science Daily.
There is a new study suggests that infertility increases the risk that a man will develop the aggressive, potentially fatal form of prostate cancer. This new study avoided that bias by using a statewide database of prostate cancer cases maintained in California. The incidence of prostate cancer in that general population was compared with the incidence of prostate cancer in 22,562 men evaluated for infertility at 15 California centers between 1967 and 1998.
If you don’t want to get into any serious breath medications, there simpler more natural products available. For super-halitosis emergencies, you can use Breath Assure, which is nothing more than capsules of parsley oil. You don’t chew them (I tried it once and was rewarded with a strong, sweet, oily taste that made me look like my friends’ cat the day we tried to give him Benadryl to reduce the swelling from a spider bite. The vet didn’t specify the type, just the dosage, and the liquid baby-dose Benadryl made him foam at the mouth for two hours. It was extremely unnerving.) The parsley oil works wonders, eliminating garlic breath and sweetening the breath for hours. Maybe that’s why Greek, Turkish and Arabic cuisines combine parsley with lemon and garlic for relishes, salads and sauces.
The cold season is usually taking its toll on our bodies, what with having to endure the low temperatures and, at the same time, muster enough strength to deal with the flu virus. More often than not, it breaks down and, as a result, we end up sick for at least 6-7 days, which is why doctors are now telling us not to wait until the virus takes control over our system and act beforehand, the moment we notice the first symptoms of the flu.
