Migraines are a common disorder affecting over 13 % of the population in North America alone. A recent study conducted by the National Headache Foundation (February 2000) found that an astonishing 28 million Americans are migraine sufferers. Untreated migraines cause loss of time from work and school, and significantly reduce the quality of life for sufferers. Half of migraine sufferers reported a 50% reduction in work or school productivity while 39% reported pain so severe that bed rest was requires - some for days at a time.

Migraine headaches are a biological disease. They are characterized by throbbing head pain, usually located on one side of the head. Nausea, hypersensitivity to light, vomiting, and dizziness often accompany an attack. Headaches vary in severity from mild, fleeting ones to those that last for as many as three hours to three days and virtually debilitate a sufferer. The most severe types are tension headaches and migraine headaches. The latter are described as vascular in that they are manifested by changes in the blood vessels within the brain. Migraines can be triggered by food, stress, hormones and other causes as suggested above. The triggers lead to chemical changes within the brain. During a migraine attack, serotonin levels drop. (Cady, Roger, M.D., and Farmer, Kathleen, Psy.D. Headache Free. New York, 19-22, 1996). Serotonin is an important brain chemical in preventing headaches. Nutritional supplementation may aid in maintaining the proper serotonin balance in the brain.

Headaches are unique to the individual experiencing them, making diagnosis harder than usual. Unfortunately there is not yet a "vaccine" that can prevent the likelihood of getting a headache. Research has shown, migraine headaches often have dietary causes; either from the consumption of a "triggering" food or drink, or the absence from the diet of certain minerals, vitamins, and herbs. During 1994-96, a migraine headache study was conducted at the Loma Linda University's School of Public Health in California. The study demonstrated that a low-fat, high-complex-carbohydrate diet significantly decreased the occurrence of migraine headaches. Proper diet, reduction of stress, exercise, and nutritional supplementation offer the prospect of ameliorating migraines, if not substantially reducing or eliminating them.

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