The heavier your snores are, the more calories you burn, that''s the conclusion of a new study, which claims that snoring is an healthy habit.
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.
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.
The calorimeter measures oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production, which can be used to determine resting energy expenditure in calories per day.
Resting energy expenditure may be affected by responses of the nervous system that occur during sleep-related breathing disorders and has been previously shown to increase when sleep has been disrupted.
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