Warning for Sleep Apnea Sufferers

ajc.com carries a report about sleep apnea raising the risk of death, especially for men.

If you suffer from sleep apnea, whether you are male or female, you may like to know that cutting down on salt and salty food reduces sleep apnea and also reduces the excess weight that causes it. This is a simple, cost-free, drug-free, completely safe way to improve your health in many ways and improve your sleep and quality of life: - maybe actually save your life!

Quick, safe weight loss without drugs or hunger: most importantly you have to give up dieting and counting calories. Dieting is harmful and unnecessary.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver damage and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better! See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Vulnerable groups

And see Sodium in foods and

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amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

See advice for pregnant mothers

Children and Obesity

Associated health conditions

and FAT RETENTION

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

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Insomnia can cause many health problems

Insomnia and other sleep problems 'can drive you mad'
article in the Telegraph

My own advice for improving sleep and reducing the problems of insomnia and sleep apnoea is to cut down on salt and salty food. This has many additional health benefits too, including lowering high blood pressure and high cholesterol and reducing excess weight.

Treating Alzheimer's sufferers for a sleep disorder that causes heavy snoring can boost their memory, a new study shows.

Treating snoring 'could help Alzheimer's sufferers' memories'
article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"Scientists found that helping patients get a better night's sleep could help them think more clearly.

They believe that the findings suggest that the symptoms of dementia could be exacerbated by the snoring condition called obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).

While it is unlikely that the problem is the cause of the devastating neurological condition, the lack of sleep and disruption it creates could cause many patients' symptoms to worsen, according to researchers.

The Alzheimer's Society called for further research into the treatment, which it said was potentially "good news" for some of the 700,000 people in Britain's who sufferer from the disease.

Previous studies have shown that sleep apnoea is more common among Alzheimer's patients than in the general population.

One study found that up to 40 per cent of patients suffered from the condition."

Snoring and Sleep Apnoea have a common cause, and that is obesity/fluid retention/sodium retention/salt sensitivity. To reduce the effects of that common cause and therefore reduce or cure snoring and/sleep apnoea it is necessary to reduce salt/sodium intake to a minimum.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Children and Obesity

And see Sodium in foods and

amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

See advice for pregnant mothers

Associated health conditions

and FAT RETENTION

'Primary school children could soon be undergoing stomach-stapling surgery as Britain's obesity epidemic worsens, a senior medical director has warned

Obesity crisis 'will lead to children having their stomachs stapled'

It is a crime and a sin, and above all a dreadful tragedy, that the 'experts' - the medical profession and the nutritionists - are STILL not telling the truth about how obesity is caused and how it is best prevented/reduced. - See my notes that appear after this extract from the Telegraph:

"Steve Ryan, of Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, said "significant numbers" of children aged two and three were being classed as obese. Conditions normally seen in middle age, such as Type 2 diabetes and sleep apnoea, were increasingly common among teenagers, he warned.

Mr Ryan said it is was "almost certain" that surgeons will have to staple children's stomachs within a few years.

At present, weight-loss surgery is only performed on adults when all other methods have failed. Although the procedure can lead to complications, Dr Ryan believes that for some children it will prove the best option."

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/.html (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Children and Obesity

vulnerable groups

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions

amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

See FAT RETENTION

advice for pregnant mothers

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

Driver suffering from sleep apnoea fell asleep at the wheel and caused four deaths...

Pile-up lorry driver guilty of nodding off

Extract from the Telegraph:

"A lorry driver who wiped out a family of four when he fell asleep at the wheel was facing jail last night.

Ian King, 61, was driving at more than 40mph when he dozed off, ploughing his 30-ton articulated lorry into a queue of traffic on the A34 near Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Travelling in one of the cars crushed in the collision were Malcolm Dowling, 46, his wife Janice, 42, and their sons Richard, 16, and George, 11, who were on their way to their home in Lichfield, Staffs, after a holiday in France. All four were killed.

King, of Groby, Leicester, suffers from sleep apnoea, a breathing disorder that can cause drowsiness, and it was claimed that he would have known he was falling asleep but failed to do anything that would have kept him awake.

He claimed that he did not know he had the condition, said to affect an estimated 600,000 men and women in Britain, and so could not have done anything to avert the tragedy."

Are you at risk of falling asleep at the wheel? - You can lower that risk and improve your mental alertness by cutting down on salt/sodium. - Sleep apnoea is associated with being overweight or obese. - The easiest, safest and most reliable way to lose excess weight is to forget about calories and calorie restriction, and concentrate instead on eating less salt and making sure you eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and heart problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

vulnerable groups

How to Lose weight!

Children and Obesity

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions and

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page

Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free.

The majority of women experience sleep problems.

Women more stressed by insomnia - Observer

Extract:

"Whether it's due to partners snoring, nagging consciences or the stresses and anxieties of modern life, new research has revealed that women are almost 20 per cent more likely to suffer insomnia than men.

A year-long investigation by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) into the sleeping habits of more than 2,000 women aged from 18 to 64 has found that almost two-thirds had between one and three disturbed nights every week. Almost 70 per cent said they frequently experience a sleep problem.

This compares to 52 per cent of men who say they suffer insomnia a few nights a week or more.

The study reflects research in a new book by the founder of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Dr Meir Kryger, author of Can't Sleep, Can't Stay Awake: A Woman's Guide To Sleep Disorders. 'Unlike men, women have sleep problems related to hormonal and bodily changes from menstruation, pregnancy and menopause,' he said.

'Unfortunately, too often it is women whose sleep disorders are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed because of a lack of education among doctors about these unique problems. This failure by doctors to correctly diagnose female sleeplessness is meaning sufferers are putting their health at risk while contributing to dramatic rises in obesity and diabetes.

'Women lose sleep because of their role in the family and the demands of today's 24/7 world,' he added.

Kryger said that women's disorders are often missed because, although they have the same sleep disorders as men, the way they react to sleeplessness is very different. 'The problem is compounded by the likelihood that women will not even realise symptoms in themselves indicating that they have sleep disorders,' he said. 'For example, women with sleep apnea - temporarily stopping breathing while asleep - have symptoms of depression more often than men with apnea.'

Kryger claimed that female sleeplessness is frequently misdiagnosed by doctors because of a widespread belief that women rarely suffer sleep problems, combined with the fact that insomnia manifests itself differently in women to how it does in men."

Well it's refreshing and very welcome to read of a male - and a medic at that - who takes women's sleep problems seriously...(o:

Here is my take on common, but unrecognised causes of insomnia in women:

Insufficient food. - Women are often chronically hungry because they are dieting/'slimming'/watching their weight/counting calories, etc and may be going to bed hungry and so less likely to sleep.

There is a positive correlation between being overweight and suffering from insomnia. There is also a positive correlation between being overweight and experiencing more pain. There is a positive correlation between depression and insomnia. The primary cause of overweight/obesity is fluid retention, and for many reasons, including childbirth, pre-menstrual tension and dieting/insufficient food, women are more prone to fluid retention than men are.

Insufficient calcium and insufficient vitamin D that is necessary to metabolise the calcium. - Calcium helps you to relax. Women tend to be short of calcium because people often tell them to cut down on dairy foods to lose weight or to reduce fat intake. But it is not necessary or desirable to cut down on milk. (Best to cut down on cheese though, because it contains a lot of salt.) Cutting down on milk will not make you slim. - AND more calcium WILL help you to lose excess weight because extra calcium in the diet reduces fat retention....(o: - Danish research shows that eating extra dairy calcium, as in low fat yoghurt, increases, in a perfectly natural and safe, healthy way, the amount of fat lost in the faeces. It was shown on a BBC2 programme earlier this year. - BBC webpage about calcium from The Truth About Food series of programmes - Maybe you should copy the whole page in case it ever disappears from the BBC's website. - Note: it does not require you to eat less or reduce calorie intake - only to eat MORE calcium. - If you do try the low fat yoghurt, make sure it's the ordinary low fat yoghurt, not the extremely low fat stuff,, 'cos that's always crammed with dodgy chemicals...)o: If you don't like yoghurt, get some supplement tablets containing a mixture of calcium and magnesium (also necessary to reduce fluid retention and depression) from your local health food store and take them in accordance with the instructions on the pack. They will help with any night cramps that are disturbing you too.

Prescription drugs, especially steroids, HRT, some birth control pills and antidepressants, are a major cause of salt sensitivity/sodium retention/water retention and therefore a major cause of obesity, insomnia, avoidable pain, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc. so if you possibly can, it is best to avoid prescribed drugs. - And MIND, the respected mental health charity, found that a walk in the country was more successful than antidepressants at relieving depression, and of course there are no bad side-effects to a walk in the country.

The way to reduce fluid retention is to eat less salt and salty food - or better still, cut it out completely. - Your body will still have enough sodium, because every scrap or food and every drop of water contains a little salt, and that is all the salt your body needs. And eat plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables because they help to rid the body of excess sodium and excess fluid.

Lose weight and benefit your health in countless other ways by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better! -
How to Lose weight!

See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/ (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods

I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free...(o:

Snorers at greater risk of heart attack...

Snoring 'may raise risk of heart attacks' - Telegraph

Extract:

"Loud snorers who have difficulty breathing in their sleep could be at a greater risk of a heart attack, a study claims.

Researchers found that such sleepers produce less nitric oxide, a gas which opens up arteries to increase blood flow and helps to keep blood pressure at a healthy level.

The study was based on 14 patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), a condition that causes breathing difficulties while sleeping as well as loud snoring and often choking."

Actually. both snoring and heart attacks (as well as sleep apnoea and breathing difficulties and many other health problems) usually share a common cause - obesity - and since obesity is caused by fluid retention/salt sensitivity, both snoring and the risk of heart attack can be safely reduced by cutting down on salt and salty food as this reduces fluid retention.

See http://aboutsalt.blogspot.com/search/label/Snoring and
http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Are you losing sleep because your partner snores? - Try getting your partner to cut down on salt.

Two years of lost sleep if your partner snores - Telegraph article

Extract:

"Snorers cost their partners two years of sleep over their lives together, researchers claim.

Fifteen million British adults live with a snoring partner, depriving them of an average of two hours sleep a night, according to a study by the British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association (BSSAA).

If an average relationship lasts 24 years, this equates to a loss of two years' sleep.

Of the 2,000 adults questioned, 85 per cent said their relationship would be better if their partner's snoring problem was resolved.

Over half (55 per cent) said snoring had affected their sexual relationship."

Snoring and sleep apnoea are strongly associated with being overweight or obese. Obesity is caused by fluid retention and can easily be lessened by reducing salt/sodium intake, because it is usually sodium retention that is causing the fluid retention. - So you can improve your sleep by getting your partner to reduce his/her salt intake.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Do you snore? Do you suffer from Sleep Apnoea?

Do you snore? Do you suffer from Sleep Apnoea?

Both these problems tend to be associated with being overweight or obese. - The easiest, safest and most reliable way to lose excess weight is to forget about calories and calorie restriction, and concentrate instead on eating less salt and making sure you eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. - And you'll be well on your way to having a better night's sleep...(o:

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/ (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Sleep Apnoea and Snoring

Sleep Apnoea and Snoring are associated with being obese or overweight.

Rather than using gadgets to assist with these problems temporarily, why not try reducing your salt intake? - This would result in safe weight loss and, hopefully, cure the sleep apnoea and snoring for good...(o:

See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/conditions.html (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or ads - just helpful info.)