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Influence on the abdomen of proper breathing

The effect of breathing reaches further than the lungs and heart: it is impossible to move the diaphragm up and down without producing an effect on the abdomen. The increase of the thoracic space during inhalation acts on the inside of the abdomea and the intestines. As a result other organs such as stomach, liver, gall bladder and pancreas are massaged as they should be and without which they cannot function properly. This natural massage is absent in the case of obese people who breathe only with the thorax and who find abdominal breathing exhausting and unpleasant and therefore get increasingly fatter. Not only do they have a great deal of stale air in their lungs but these are only working with part of their surface.

The obese person also carries around digested food and it is nothing out of the ordinary to find that his intestines contain the remnants of up to six or more meals of the last 48 hours. These remnants which tend to ferment and putrify, consist of partly decomposed food. They become more and more poisonous, and when toxic gases or liquids are absorbed by the intestines they pass into the circulation where they produce devastating effects. The faeces become dryer and harder and through mechanical friction cause injury and possibly piles. It is therefore not to be wondered that in just those parts where the hardest and most poisonous faeces are carried around, cancer of the intestines is frequently diagnosed.

The obese person is aware of the results of this poisoning and tries to get rid of it by taking chemical laxatives which lead to explosive evacuation but create really an unnatural solution as they do not allow the body to work for itself.