Meeting on the 3 of May 2012

RC Gombak Meeting on 3 May 12

Meeting started with the ring of the bell and the royal toast as usual at 1.15pm by President Joyce Lim.                                                          

This was followed by announcements by President Joyce. She informed that the Thursday meeting on 17 May 12 shall be replaced by the TRF dinner at Bukit Jalil on Friday 18 May 12.

Each participant shall have to top up RM20 for the dinner. Guest would have to pay RM60 .

Board of Directors meeting shall be at 6.30pm Monday 14 May 12 at the Bunga Raya Restaurant, the Royal Lake Club.

PP Jeff Hoh introduced the speaker for the day, Dr. Yeo who was here to speak on snoring.

He gave an interesting talk on snoring accompanied with different variety of snoring sounds depending on which part of air track was constricted. He also informed the various solutions to snoring.

He began his talk on long term effects on snoring, that could lead to heart problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia. He explained that first few hours (4hours) of sleep is known as NREM

restful sleep followed by the 2^nd part of REM Sleep where the heart

beat becomes faster and when we dream.

Sleep has this pattern of NREM and REM and is to be continuous. Snoring interrupts this sleep as the airways are constricted and carbon dioxide builds up that is when we wake up.

One thing for sure from this talk I understood the miracle of sleeping. Sleep is a need and assures us of good health as the good doctor said we can do away with food for a week but certainly will not be able to do away with sleep for a week.

The meeting ended with many questions and David (our newest member) had a few words of thanks for the speaker.

The meeting closed at 2:00 pm.