1. Health professionals recommend eating fresh, raw foods rich in complex carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, and their juices) - especially those high in chlorophyll, antioxidants, and vitamin F (Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids), including dark leafy greens, sprouts, avocados, and walnuts.

2. Breathing fresher air by opening the windows of your office, home, car, and allowing the air to circulate more freely.

3. Frequent aerobic exercise - especially outdoors - thereby increasing the heart’s capacity to pump more blood into the tissues.

4. Practicing good habits of posture and deep breathing exercises to inflate the lungs more fully. This is especially important if confined indoors for long hours, such as in computer-related work.

5. Being aware of the air quality in our environment. Websites such as www.scorecard.org can provide surprising information about the level of pollutants in specific localities. Sometimes a relatively small move can make a big difference in what you are breathing.

“The lungs are constantly throwing off impurities, and they need to be constantly supplied with fresh air. Impure air does not afford the necessary supply of oxygen, and the blood passes to the brain and other organs without being vitalized. Hence the necessity of thorough ventilation. To live in close, ill-ventilated rooms, where the air is dead and vitiated, weakens the entire system. It becomes peculiarly sensitive to the influence of cold, and a slight exposure induces disease.”1

“The strength of the system is, in a great degree, dependent upon the amount of pure, fresh air breathed. If the lungs are restricted, the quantity of oxygen received into them is also limited, the blood becomes vitiated, and disease follows.”2

“The chief if not the only reason why many become invalids is that the blood does not circulate freely, and the changes in the vital fluid, which are necessary to life and health, do not take place. They have not given their bodies exercise nor their lungs food, which is pure, fresh air; therefore it is impossible for the blood to be vitalized, and it pursues its course sluggishly through the system. The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood. More people die for want of exercise than through overfatigue; very many more rust out than wear out. Those who accustom themselves to proper exercise in the open air will generally have a good and vigorous circulation. We are more dependent upon the air we breathe than upon the food we eat. Men and women, young and old, who desire health, and who would enjoy active life, should remember that they cannot have these without a good circulation. Whatever their business and inclinations, they should make up their minds to exercise in the open air as much as they can. They should feel it a religious duty to overcome the conditions of health which have kept them confined indoors, deprived of exercise in the open air.”3

“Air, air, the precious boon of heaven which all may have, will bless you with its invigorating influence if you will not refuse it entrance. Welcome it, cultivate a love for it, and it will prove a precious soother of the nerves. Air must be in constant circulation to be kept pure. The influence of pure, fresh air is to cause the blood to circulate healthfully through the system. It refreshes the body and tends to render it strong and healthy, while at the same time its influence is decidedly felt upon the mind, imparting a degree of composure and serenity. It excites the appetite, and renders the digestion of food more perfect, and induces sound and sweet sleep.”4