Snoring blamed for most Saudi divorces
So, she devised a singing exercise program to strengthen the throat muscles. I then set up this trial and the results have been really interesting.” Hilton explains that snoring and obstructive sleep apnea affect millions of people. Snoring may not be a life-threatening condition, but it disrupts lives and sufferers often seek medical advice. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), on the other hand, is potentially much more serious. It can cause people to stop breathing during deep sleep, and severely diminish sleep quality.
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Snoring ‘cured by singing exercise’
For three months, the patients in the clinical trial have been doing singing exercises to improve the tone of their throat muscles. Choir director Alise Ojay is the inventor of Singing for Snorers exercises. She told Today presenter Evan Davis that she had found that patients who sung the sounds “ung” and “gar” found that their snoring decreased or stopped. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday 19 August 2013.
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Nearly 80 per cent of the divorces in the Gulf Kingdom are a result of snoring by husbands, their lack of affection towards wives, the widespread Misyar marriage and the influence of western media and movies on Saudi women. The main factor is snoring by husbandsalmost 80 per cent of the divorces in the Kingdom are requested by the wives because of snoring by their husbands, Alyoum Arabic language daily said, quoting an unnamed Saudi Islamic scholar. The other main factors are the external appearance of husbands at home, lack of romance and the influence of foreign media and movies on womens attitudes. Figures by the Ministry of Justice showed there were around 34,490 divorce cases in Saudi Arabia in 2012, nearly a quarter of the total marriages. In some years, the worlds dominant oil supplier had an average one divorce every half an hour, one of the highest divorce rates in the world. Official data showed that in 2010, the Kingdom recorded 18,765 divorces, a rate of more than 35 per cent of the marriages.
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