Foods that Can Make Headaches

News Health Articles - Foods that Can Make Headaches. There are various factors that can cause headaches, ranging from mild to severe symptoms of disease. Even some foods can also trigger headaches. What?

Apart from the symptoms of an illness, headaches may occur due to hormonal changes, stress, sleep habits, and depression. Headaches can also occur due to changes in diet and suddenly switch to a diet with very low calorie. In other words, crash diets can also make a headache.



"It can cause headaches, especially if your diet to reduce or eliminate carbohydrates completely. The brain can only use carbohydrates as fuel. Headaches can also occur because of low blood sugar levels. Also, if you start skipping meals or having interval ate long. Even a very low water intake can trigger a headache, "said Niti Desai, nutrition consultants, as reported by timesofindia, Thursday (29/12/2011).

Here are some foods that can trigger headaches, among others:

1. Foods containing tyramine
Tyramine is an amino acid that can trigger headaches by reducing the levels of serotonin in the brain and affect blood vessel dilation. Foods that contain tyramine should also be avoided for patients with migraine, such as red wine, cheese, chocolate, alcoholic beverages and certain processed meats.

2. Aperitif
For some people, drinking various types of beverages containing alcohol can cause migraines. Other compounds in beer, wine and whiskey which deplete levels of serotonin (happy hormone) in the brain may also trigger migraines.

3. Chocolate
Chocolate can act as a trigger migraines because it also contains tyramine. But at the same time, women tend to consume chocolate when changes in stress hormones that can also trigger headaches.

4. Coffee
Coffee is addictive mild and temporarily improve mental alertness and concentration. However, the effect of reversal (withdrawal) when a person is addicted to coffee can often cause headaches, irritability and other symptoms that vary.

5. Artificial Sweeteners
Important because the natural sugars to store chemical energy. All forms of natural sugars give the same energy value, ie 4 calories per gram. Natural sugars are better than artificial sweeteners, and some people are not tolerant of artificial sweeteners to trigger headaches, usually the type of sweetener aspartame and sucralose.