This is straight from the CDC...
More people die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer. This is true for both men and women. In 2004 (the most recent year for which statistics are currently available), lung cancer accounted for more deaths than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined.† In that year,
108,355 men and 87,897 women were diagnosed with lung cancer
89,575 men and 68,431 women died from lung cancer
Among men in the United States, lung cancer is the second most common cancer among white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native men, and the third most common cancer among Hispanic men. Among women in the United States, lung cancer is the second most common cancer among white and American Indian/Alaska Native women, and the third most common cancer among black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic women.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Increase in Oxygen Helped Mammals Dominate
This is straight from the news...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mammals, once tiny creatures scampering on the forest floor, grew larger as the amount of oxygen in the air increased over millions of years, a new study says.
Today mammals, ranging from dogs and cats to elephants, dolphins and people, dominate the planet.
It's a success story Paul G. Falkowski of Rutgers University and colleagues say was helped by the more than doubling of oxygen in the air over the last 205 million years. Their findings are published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The researchers measured samples of material deposited on the seafloor going back millions of years. By measuring the amount of carbon-13 in the samples they were able to estimate the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere at a particular time.
They found that the air contained only about 10 percent oxygen at the time of the dinosaurs.
By 50 million years ago the oxygen level had risen to 17 percent and it was 23 percent 40 million years ago, they reported. Currently the air contains about 21 percent oxygen.
The rise of oxygen "almost certainly contributed to evolution of large animals,'' the researchers reported. The oxygen needs of mammals and birds are three to six times as high as reptiles.
The impact of an asteroid or meteorite about 65 million years ago is thought to have contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs. Their elimination also created an opportunity for the rise of mammals.
There was an increase in small and medium-sized mammals in the first few million years after the end of the dinosaurs, the researchers reported. A second surge, from medium to large sizes, was seen between 50 million and 40 million years ago, they reported.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mammals, once tiny creatures scampering on the forest floor, grew larger as the amount of oxygen in the air increased over millions of years, a new study says.
Today mammals, ranging from dogs and cats to elephants, dolphins and people, dominate the planet.
It's a success story Paul G. Falkowski of Rutgers University and colleagues say was helped by the more than doubling of oxygen in the air over the last 205 million years. Their findings are published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The researchers measured samples of material deposited on the seafloor going back millions of years. By measuring the amount of carbon-13 in the samples they were able to estimate the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere at a particular time.
They found that the air contained only about 10 percent oxygen at the time of the dinosaurs.
By 50 million years ago the oxygen level had risen to 17 percent and it was 23 percent 40 million years ago, they reported. Currently the air contains about 21 percent oxygen.
The rise of oxygen "almost certainly contributed to evolution of large animals,'' the researchers reported. The oxygen needs of mammals and birds are three to six times as high as reptiles.
The impact of an asteroid or meteorite about 65 million years ago is thought to have contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs. Their elimination also created an opportunity for the rise of mammals.
There was an increase in small and medium-sized mammals in the first few million years after the end of the dinosaurs, the researchers reported. A second surge, from medium to large sizes, was seen between 50 million and 40 million years ago, they reported.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Would You Like to Live Longer
Studies show that there is a strong relationship between better breathing, fullness of life and longevity. In a study by a thoracic surgeon and psychologist Phil Neurenberger, all 152 heart attack victims had a serious breathing irregularity. Breathing in a less than optimal way can result in shortening of life span and or illness ranging from chronic nervousness to a slowly agonizing death.
The less oxygen you take in the harder your heart has to work to gather oxygen for the body. When breathing becomes easier, the heart does not have to work as hard. When you try to breathe too quickly, as in a race or when you are frightened, you excite the nervous system and this excitation locks up the expansion potential of the muscles holding the rib cage together. This reduces the ability for the chest to easily expand and the lungs to take in extra oxygen easily.
Get my the Xceptional Breathing Program now to lose weight and live longer.
The less oxygen you take in the harder your heart has to work to gather oxygen for the body. When breathing becomes easier, the heart does not have to work as hard. When you try to breathe too quickly, as in a race or when you are frightened, you excite the nervous system and this excitation locks up the expansion potential of the muscles holding the rib cage together. This reduces the ability for the chest to easily expand and the lungs to take in extra oxygen easily.
Get my the Xceptional Breathing Program now to lose weight and live longer.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Welcome
Take a deep breath and get ready to read the most up-to-date information on how you can use your breath to heal your body. I believe a person lives or dies according to how they breathe.
I hope you come back often, as I will try to update with pertinent health and wellness information at least once a week. Thank you as always.
I hope you come back often, as I will try to update with pertinent health and wellness information at least once a week. Thank you as always.
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