Health News from Medical News Today: Sleep apnea patients benefit significantly from low energy diet

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Sleep apnea patients benefit significantly from low energy diet 2 Jun 2011, 12:00 am A low-energy diet based on the Cambridge weight plan was found to help patients with sleep apnea, researchers from the Korlinska Institute, Sweden reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). The low energy diet helped them lose weight; overweight is a common cause of this sleeping disorder. Sleep apnea (UK: apnoea) is a common sleeping disorder in which there are unusual pauses in breathing during sleep, or moments of abnormally low breathing (hypopnea). Each breathing pause is called an apnea. These can last from just a couple of seconds to minutes... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.