That is pretty interesting. I've never been seasick, but I'm going to keep this in mind just in case! Mark On 11/3/2010 7:26 AM, Jim wrote: > Researchers from Imperial College London enlisted 26 volunteers to sit > in a tilting, rocking flight simulator and coordinate their breathing in > various ways with the motion. The tests lasted up to 30 minutes, or > until subjects felt moderately sick. The natural tendency was for > volunteers to inhale on every backward tilt, in rhythm with the rocking. > But if the subjects exhaled on every backward tilt, they didn't get sick > as quickly. They felt even better if they breathed slightly faster or > slower than the cyclic heaving of the chair; using that technique, the > time until onset of nausea was 50% longer than during normal breathing. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Nov 03 2010 - 12:55:08 PDT
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