How Do You Get Rid of Snoring? You Stop Snoring By Not Eating Late!
By: John Cielo
Submitted: 2010-12-16 08:48:41 | Word Count: 528
Heavy snoring is a curse. But how do you prevent it? Well, there are several ways you get rid of snoring, but there is one thing that you should try first. And that is to stop eating late meals. You'll find out why here, plus, what else you need to do to stop snoring for good.
First though, before we go over how you get rid of snoring at night, and, to understand how eating late evening meals can make you snore, you need to know what causes your snoring...
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Snoring is caused when the soft tissue in your airways vibrate due to turbulent airflow over the tissue as you breathe in and out during sleep. But why is the air turbulent and not smooth flowing? It's because your airways have become restricted by the same relaxed tissue during sleep, forcing the air through narrower channels. When air has to do this it flows faster.
The soft tissue has slid into, and restricted, your airways because your muscles have totally relaxed during slumber. This is why, even as a serial snorer, you don't snore when you are awake, only when you sleep. So the key to getting rid of your snoring problem is to prevent your airways becoming restricted and allowing for full, smooth airflow through them.
Now, one of the issues that can help restrict your air passages is eating a meal too late in the evening. You see, if you fill your stomach with a late meal, the undigested food puts a lot of pressure on your diaphragm, which puts pressure on your main airway, effectively restricting it.
And we can't escape the fact that folks who eat heavy late meals are also more likely to be overweight. And someone who is overweight will have more flesh and fat around the jowls and neck area. This again puts pressure on the airways and helps to restrict them.
So one tip on how you get rid of snoring is to avoid eating late meals...
It takes some time for your body to fully digest food, so you should not eat a meal within 3 1/2 to 4 hours before bedtime. Now, the same goes for alcohol, which helps to relax the muscles even more. In searching for how to get rid of snoring you probably never ever thought that your late meals could be helping you to snore at night. And I've shown you how it can.
But, simply avoiding late evening meals, is only one of the important things you must do to get rid of snoring for good. There are many other issues that you need to address, such as; are you overweight?, do you smoke?, do you sleep on your back?, which drugs are you taking?, any underlying illness?, etc...
