Sleep Apnea On The Biggest Loser

I am not sure if this is a good thing or not, but Sleep Apnea was recently a conversation piece on the NBC TV show, The Biggest Loser. For anyone who has been hiding under a rock and never seen the show, the premise is that they take various contestants and help them lose weight. They do this by tightly controlling the conditions for much of the show. They have a large gym facility on site, they have trainers pushing them (Jillian Michales is the best known one probably) to work out harder and in a more structured way.

The show has various contestants, sometimes it is husband and wife, sometimes they have families and sometimes a totally different combination altogether. I watched the 1st season of the biggest loser and it was pretty good but people in the second season seemed mean so we stopped watching.

Anyway in this season one of the guys was a commercial truck driver, and the Dr on the show told him he has severe sleep apnea. Apparently a driver who has sleep apnea is over 200% more likely to be involved in a crash than someone who sleeps normally. So your husband is keeping you awake with his snoring and then he is twice as likely to be in a crash than you are (assuming you don’t suffer with it as well).

If that stat does not scare people into at least getting checked out by their Dr nothing will.

If you are, or you know someone who is, a truck driver you should be looking into the new mobile testing opportunities that we discussed in this post 

Huge thanks to Brett Emison for sharing the info and scaring the life out of me – Read more - http://kansascity.injuryboard.com/tractor-trailer-accidents/did-you-know-the-biggest-loser-highlighted-sleep-apena-problem-in-semi-truck-drivers.aspx?googleid=297760