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The secret ingredient to a good night's sleep: Major study finds 'crucial' link between food and sleep apnoea, causing snoring By JO MACFARLANE Published: 23:35, 30 November 2024 | Updated: 23:35, 30 November 2024 e-mail View comments Cheesed off with snoring? Try eating more cheddar. Despite many people thinking the opposite, research suggests that cheese may in fact reduce the risk of severe snoring. A major study of 400,000 people in the UK has revealed that eating cheese regularly is linked to a 28 per cent lower risk of sleep apnoea, which often causes problem snoring.
Writing in the Sleep Medicine journal, researchers said they had linked ‘higher cheese intake to a reduced likelihood of developing sleep apnoea’ and said that not enough attention had been paid to the ‘connection with diet’. ‘This relationship may be crucial,’ they stressed. File.
Eating cheese regularly is linked to a 28 per cent lower risk of sleep apnoea, which often causes problem snoring File. Snorers have previously been advised to avoid dairy products, including cheese, especially before bed, as it was believed it could make their problem worse Sleep apnoea is a common sleep disorder with nearly one billion sufferers worldwide. Its most common form, obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), causes the walls of the throat to relax and narrow or close for a few seconds during sleep.
This triggers breathing pauses and loud snoring. Up to 3.9 million people in the UK are estimated to have moderate or severe OSA, although it is considered to be under-diagnosed.
Not all snorers have sleep apnoea, but the two often go hand in hand, and the louder the snoring, the greater the chances of having it. Snorers have previously been advised to avoid dairy products, including cheese, especially before bed, as it was believed it could make their problem worse by increasing mucus production and clogging airways. More than 20 ways in which cheese – be it gorgonzola, cheddar, camembert or manchego – could lower the risk of sleep apnoea include increasing levels of testosterone and lowering blood pressure, according to the researchers from Chengdu University, China.
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