BMI Calculator: How Healthy Is Your Weight?
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock Typically, people with higher BMIs have a greater likelihood of developing conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and type 2 diabetes. But many factors — including your family history, eating habits and activity level — also influence your overall health. http://www.aarp.org/health/fitness/info-05-2010/bmi_calculator.html?cmp=NLC-MBA-090814&e2token=Ymx1bWVuc3RvY0B5YWhvby5jb20%3D Calculate your BMI. …
Dealing with snoring helps both partners
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock“Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone” Unlike high blood pressure or blood sugars, snoring is unique in that it causes problems not just to the person with the issue, but to both partners. As a result, 25 percent of married couples state that they sleep separately because their partners snore. Besides sleeping alone, it can also adversely affect our health. For-tunately, there is a lot that can be done to turn down the noise, improve our relationships and maintain our best health. Dr. Nina’s what you need to know about …
The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice. An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science. “There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity …
4 Days, 11 Pounds
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock If you are looking to lose weight you might find this of interest. Loss of weight is usually a help in managing obstructive sleep apnea. By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS MAY 22, 2014 12:01 AM This article appeared in the May 25, 2014 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Losing weight is simple: Ingest fewer calories than your body burns. But how best to do that is unclear. Most experts advise small reductions in calories or increases in exercise to remove weight slowly and sensibly, but many people quit that type of program in the face of …
‘Fed Up’ Asks, Are All Calories Equal?
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock Since obstructive sleep apnea gets worse with weight gain, I thought that this would be an interesting article about dealing with obesity. By ANAHAD O’CONNOR MAY 9, 2014, 8:17 AM Americans have long been told that the cure for obesity is simple: Eat fewer calories and exercise more. But a new documentary challenges that notion, making the case that Americans have been misled by the idea that we get fat simply because we consume more calories than we expend. The film explores what it sees as some of the more insidious corporate and political forces behind …
Crystalline Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the Eye
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock A recent study by the University of North Carolina, adds ocular diseases to the long list of obstructive sleep apnea associations. By Matheson A. Harris, MD, Syndee J. Givre, MD, PHD, and Amy M. Fowler, MDEdited by Ingrid U. Scott, MD, MPH, and Sharon Fekrat, MD Sleep is something we all need and, especially as physicians, often cherish. While eyelids that are tired and droopy may be one of the first signs to herald sleepiness, sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) actually have many ocular sequelae, some of which are vision-threatening. It is …
How Snoring Can Cause Weight Gain
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock This is true especially if the snoring is related to obstructive sleep apnea. Dr. Donald M. Sesso, For Philly.com/Health Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 4:14 AM As a sleep specialist, my patients often ask about the relationship between snoring and weight gain. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has demonstrated that obesity is a risk factor for snoring and sleep apnea and that snoring may cause weight gain or the inability to lose weight. The relationship between snoring and weight gain is linked to alterations in our metabolism, increased appetite and decreased energy expenditure. In other …
Are you kept awake by your partner’s snoring? Get them to sing.
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock:Singing may not cure snoring or obstructive sleep apnea but increased muscle tone from singing may be somewhat helpful. 10:30am Friday 7th March 2014 in News Rock choir helps reduce snoring PEOPLE suffering from bad nights sleep or kept awake by their partner’s snoring, should start singing. According to research joining a Rock Choir group can help boost people’s mental health and wellbeing, while reducing snoring. Helen Just, leader of the Droitwich Spa, Great Malvern and Worcester Rock Choir, said a study carried out by the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust found preliminary evidence that …
TWO SIGNIFICANT INDICATORS OF SLEEP APNEA- BMI and NECK CIRCUMFERENCE. Calculate them here:
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock:Calculate your Sleep Apnea risks factors here: The Body Mass Index (BMI) appraisal is one of the most widely used tools to measure healthy body weight. This ratio of height to weight will help assess whether you are underweight, normal weight or overweight. The higher the BMI, the greater the risk of some diseases, including: Sleep Apnea, Stroke, High blood pressure, Coronary artery disease, Osteoarthritis, Some cancers, Diabetes type 2. Sleep Apnea awareness is “contagious”. As more and more people learn about SA, doctors are driven to get training and certification to be able to discover and treat this disease. Less than …
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