Diet May Be the Key to Avoiding Painful Migraines

What if you could banish Migraine headaches by making changes in the foods you eat? These headaches are often painful and debilitating. Would it be worth adjusting your daily diet to avoid the pain?

In the late 90s Loma Linda University’s School of Public Health showed that a low-fat, high-complex-carbohydrate diet can dramatically lower the frequency of migraine headaches.

The objective of the study was to reduce the fat consumption of the subjects to between 20 and 30 grams of fat per day, which is about 10-15% of total calories eaten. The results of the study:

“demonstrated clearly a very strong connection between high dietary fat intake and migraine headache. Patients who had decreased their fat intake had significantly lowered the frequency, intensity, and duration of their migraine headaches… One of the most important contributions of the study was to identify increased levels of blood fat as the common denominator of primary headaches. These findings linked together a multitude of seemingly unrelated headache triggers, all of which cause levels of blood fat to rise. This opened the path toward a radically new treatment of headaches based on specific lifestyle modifications to reduce blood fat levels and to restore the body’s natural biochemical balances necessary to prevent headaches.”

Diet-oriented practitioners are involved with identifying the connection between health problems and the foods people eat. This is not always a difficult thing to do, but somewhere down the line, when you can identify a problematic food or set of foods, the results of better health are well worth the effort. But it takes a commitment to changing the way you eat to get to the bottom of your problem.

BOTTOM LINE: To Reduce the chance of Migraine headaches, your best bet is to Eat Less FAT and more HIGH-COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES in your daily diet.