Foods that Can Make Headaches

There are various factors that can cause headaches, ranging from mild to severe disease symptoms. Even some foods can also trigger headaches. Anything?

Aside from the symptoms of an illness, headaches can occur due to hormonal changes, stress, sleep habits, and depression. Headaches can also occur due to changes in eating patterns abruptly and switched to a very low calorie diet. In other words, crash diets can also cause headaches.

"It can cause headaches, especially if your diet is reduce or eliminate carbohydrates completely. The brain can only use carbohydrates as fuel. Headaches can also occur because blood sugar levels are low. Also, if you start to skip a meal or an interval long meal. Even very low water intake can cause headaches, "said Niti Desai, nutritional consultant, as reported Timesofindia.

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 serotonin levels in the brain and affects blood vessel dilation. Foods containing tyramine must be avoided for migraine sufferers, such as red wine, cheese, chocolate, alcohol, and certain processed meat.

2. Alcoholic beverages

For some people, drinking a variety of drinks containing alcohol can cause migraines. Other compounds in beer, wine and whiskey that deplete the levels of serotonin (happy hormone) in the brain can also trigger migraines.

3. Chocolate

Chocolate can act as a trigger for migraine 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

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

5. Artificial Sweeteners

Natural sugar is important because to store chemical energy. All forms of natural sugars provide the same energy value, namely 4 calories per gram. Natural sugar is better than artificial sweeteners, and some people are intolerant of artificial sweeteners to trigger headaches, usually sweeteners aspartame and sucralose.

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