How to Be Healthier Without Really Trying

You’ll take roughly 670 million breaths in your lifetime. But we don’t think about breathing much. It’s only when something goes wrong — like when you’re choking on a chicken nugget — that you suddenly realize breathing isn’t as optional as it appears. At least with eating, you can skip a few meals. But with breathing, you slack off for even two minutes, and suddenly everyone’s calling an ambulance.

Here’s the thing: most of us have been breathing wrong. Seriously. Breathing’s one of those thi...