Heavy Snoring Can Burn Calories
I know you guys probably don’t like me posting the positive information about snoring, but I thought in this case you could find a positive. There are probably a lot of negative associates with the fact that snoring will burn calories too. If you’re to that state, than the health benefits are probably a lot lower than the health risks. Either way, I thought you should at least hear what studies have been concluding. If you want to be able to say bye-bye to your snoring problem, all you have to do is click here.
According to the study, heavy snorers burn more fat than light counterparts, even while they are awake and resting.
The study has been published in the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Sleep-related breathing disorders include snoring, pauses in breathing (sleep apnea) and other conditions in which airways are partially or completely obstructed during sleep.
“Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of sleep-disordered breathing, and changes in body weight are associated with changes in sleep-disordered breathing severity,” the researchers write as background information in the article.
“It is unclear whether weight gain is simply a cause of sleep-disordered breathing or whether sleep-disordered breathing may be associated with alterations in energy metabolism that, in turn, lead to weight gain and complicate the treatment of these two disorders that often coexist,” they added.
Body weight is based on the balance between energy or calorie intake and expenditure, the authors note. Resting energy expenditure, or the number of calories burned while resting, is one component of total daily energy expenditure.
To reach the conclusion, Eric J. Kezirian, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues assessed the resting energy expenditure in 212 adults with signs or symptoms of sleep-related breathing disorders.
Participants” medical history was taken, and they underwent a physical examination, sleep monitoring through polysomnography and determination of resting energy expenditure using a device known as an indirect calorimeter.
The calorimeter measures oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production, which can be used to determine resting energy expenditure in calories per day.
Among the 212 participants, the average resting energy expenditure was 1,763 calories per day. Several measures of sleep-disordered breathing severity were associated with increases in resting energy expenditure. For example, those who scored the highest on a scale of apnea and hypopnea (disruptions in breathing) had a resting energy expenditure of 1,999, while those who scored the lowest expended an average of 1,626 calories per day resting.