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"We take an average of 7.5 million breaths a year and some 600 million in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. 'Our lungs are the lynchpin between our bodies and the outside world,' writes Dr. Michael J. Stephen. And yet, we take our lungs for granted until we're incapacitated and suddenly confronted with their vital importance. In Breath Taking, pulmonologist...
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2020
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"No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure...
7) Respiration
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Disney Educational Productions
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2009.
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English
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Bill Nye gets aerobic about the importance of respiration when he jogs, bikes, swims, and scuba dives. Discover how to measure how much air each breath contains and make a model lung in a nifty home experiment. See a demonstration of how cigarette smoke can infiltrate and injure lungs.
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"A poetic and visually breathtaking look at what happens inside your body when you breathe. What happens when you breathe? In this beautiful book, breath the very air, stardust, the grand molecules of the universe blossoms in the upside-down tree in your rising chest, animating and enlivening you. And when you breathe out, you send your song out into the world."--www.bookdepository.com.
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Sounds True, Inc
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2020.
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English
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"This book is in the same vein as Herve Tullet's Press Here. The child physically interacts with the book, balancing it on their stomach, blowing on the pages, tracing lines on the page with their fingers and so on. Throughout the book, they learn to become aware of their breath and to use it in connection with positive intentions, such as releasing worries and sending kind wishes to others"--
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Planeta
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2021.
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Español
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"No importa lo que comas ni cuanto ejercicio hagas. Tu salud depende esencialmente de la manera en que respiras. Y lo estas haciendo mal. Sabias que de las 5,400 especies de mamiferos somos la unica que tiene los dientes torcidos? Hace 150 anos el ser humano dejo de masticar tanto, y con ello no solo se inicio un proceso de deformacion de nuestras mandibulas, sino que empezamos a respirar por la boca en lugar de por la nariz. En este apasionante...
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Breathing is a continuous battle between our need for oxygen and forces in nature that attack our lungs. Three hundred thousand Americans will die of respiratory diseases this year. Gasping for Air is the dramatic story of how infections, toxins, carcinogens, and air pollution strike against one of our basic body functions. The book also describes how we come into the struggle with diseases like asthma, cystic fibrosis, and sleep apnea, which make...
14) The yawn book
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Clarion books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,|c2022
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"Why do we yawn? Do animals yawn? And why are yawns so CONTAGIOUS? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this fact-filled and funny nonfiction picture book. Why did you yawn before your piano recital? Do you yawn more than your grandmother? And is your pet dog really yawning because you are? Find out in The Yawn Book, a funny and fascinating book of facts, including the most unbelievable one: no one knows for sure why we yawn at all." --|cPublisher...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2022]
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English
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"An authoritative, accessible guide to how our lungs work and how to protect them. Most of us pay little attention to the workings of our lungs, but the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked interest in their functioning and fear about the risks they face. Dr. MeiLan K. Han, a leading pulmonologist and a national spokesperson for the American Lung Association, takes readers on a fascinating tour of this most vital organ. Han explains the wonder of breathing...
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