Try: Suggest that cr try eating fewer carbohydrates and more fats to help him her to breathe more easily also to maintain healthy respiratory muscles suggest that cr try to eat protein at least twice a day suggest that cr try eating several small meals during the day as opposed to three large ones to help cr cr’s breathing a full stomach presses against the diaphragm preventing the lungs from filling completely digesting a large meal pulls blood and oxygen to the stomach and away from the lungs where it is more needed suggest that cr eat more calories since breathing uses up a great deal of cr cr’s energy try looking on line at the american lung association website their website provides some recipes that can be especially helpful for lung patients

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Keywords: Low energy breathing problems lungs respiratory oxygen

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