I think we can all agree that snoring is not an optimum bedtime activity, especially when it comes to the quality of sleep of your loved ones! Snoring has been linked to obesity, and so it’s not really surprising that people have looked to diet when it comes to methods that relieve snoring. The Santa Monica Mirror suggests that reducing wheat consumption and

A wholesome, seasonally balanced diet rich in soluble fiber and complex carbohydrates can help maintain good respiratory health and vitality of defensive energy. When eating grains choose whole grains such as brown rice, whole oats, and millet, and try protein-rich grains like quinoa and amaranth…

Well, we’re not really qualified to say whether these kind of dietary changes could impact snoring in particular, but in general, a healthy diet certainly couldn’t hurt! We currently source quinoa from South America. It’s an excellent, protein rich grain which is often a perfect gluten free alternative to wheat flour when used in applications such as bread and bakery.

Do you suffer from snoring? Have you found any dietary changes that help? Let us know in the comments!

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Since we’re in the food industry, we’re always looking for sources of food information on the internet. Sometimes the very latest trends in healthy, nutritional foods haven’t even made it into the mainstream press so we particularly like discovering new sources in the blogosphere. Here are a few blogs we have been following lately that we’d like to share:

Healthy Fellow: JP, the creator of Healthy Fellow is a natural health consultant, researcher and writer. This site is packed with information on “natural health”. What we particularly like about Healthy Fellow is the depth to which JP researches most if not all of his posts, including references to the latest medical journals and scientific papers, while at the same time making the content easily accessible to the lay person. Fantastic blog for information on natural foods.

Joyous Health: This blog belongs to Joy McCarthy, a Certified and Registered Nutritionist located in Toronto, Ontario. The blog focuses on healthy lifestyles, and given that food is a big part of a healthy lifestyle, there is a lot of information related to food, including many delicious and healthy recipes. She’s also a contributor to AOL Canada’s Nutrition & Fitness website: That’s Fit – also worth checking out.

Ajay’s Writings On The Wall: This is the personal blog of a columnist at the Manila Bulletin’s Technews. She covers a lot of diverse subjects in her blog including filipiniana which is only natural given that she’s based in the Philippines. She clearly loves food, and there are a lot of posts related to food in general, and Filipino cuisine.

By the way, I’m a big fan of Filipino food, including my favourite breakfast, tosilig:

In North America, there is Chinese food and there is Chinese food. The former always includes chicken balls with a half inch batter coating served with a high viscosity artificially intense orange coloured sauce. This kind of Chinese food is not usually consumed by Chinese people and can often be found for sale in food courts and suburban strip plazas. The latter does not include the aforementioned chicken balls and is consumed by actual Chinese people. In Toronto, these real Chinese restaurants can be most often identified by a prominence of Chinese writing on the signs over, or even to the exclusion of, English. If you want great Chinese food, you have to find one of these kind of restaurants (in our humble opinion anyway!)

One such spot is Bayview Court at Major Mackenzie and Bayview Avenues in Richmond Hill. The food is so good, I ate half the prawn balls before remembering to take a nice picture for the blog:

I also highly recommend the “house special” seafood fried rice. Last time out, we tried the deep fried chicken because, well, anything tastes better deep fried:

We offset the damage by purchasing some health credits in the form of a Fish and vegetable dish:

Great food. We highly recommend Bayview Court!