Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ways Your Breathing Rate Can Change

For today's blog I will talk about 3 different ways that can change a persons breathing rate. Breathing rates can change through many different ways such as when a person has asthma, your emotions, chronic bronchitis, apnea, and emphysema. Some of these factors affect your breathing rate. If a person has asthma, the breathing rate can change because asthma is irritants in the bronchial passages. Making it hard to breath oxygen in and out. Therefore, causing the breathing rate to rise. Your emotions also control the breathing rate such as when you get scared you take a long gasp and then hold it then you would start to panic and make the rate rise. Chronic Bronchitis is when the mucosa in the lower respiratory passages become inflamed and starts to produce a great amount of mucus. The mucus traps ventilation and gas exchange. No oxygen getting through so, the breathing rate would increase.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

For My Health Project

We are assigned a project to do for our on health. The assignment has been going well but I believe that if I wanted to lose more than my usual weight I have to be able to eat more healthy and exercise more. Every week I would eat a certain amount a food and exercise two to three times a week depending if I have time. But, at least I would exercise two times a week to keep my weight in a balance. Sometimes when i eat too full of a lunch I would not eat dinner because I am too full from the lunch I have eaten or if that portion is equal to a lunch and dinner add together. Most of the times in the morning I would eat only cereal and nothing else because with cereal I have milk in it and milk makes a person leaner and taller. The project has been going well but I do not think I would achieve my goal that easy because it takes a consistent watching over if what I eat and how much I exercise. But, I am trying my best to achieve that goal of mines which is to either maintain or lose weight.