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8 Nutrition Hacks for Headaches

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3) Avoid toxic food chemicals

Toxic food additives such as monosodium glutamate and artificial food dyes can cause headaches. Makes sense that having chemicals bouncing around in your body would upset your brain.

Unfortunately a lot of toxic food chemicals are in our food supply. The good news is, day by day we’re seeing less food additives and healthier alternatives.

Additionally, there is an app that helps you decipher if food additives are safe or not. Download the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s app called Chemical Cuisine.

Source:

http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm

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Nothing drains the life out of your day quite like being knocked down with a headache. The good news is there is a lot that nutrition can do to help decrease the intensity, duration and frequency for a person who gets headaches.

With nutrition in your corner, you can get back into the ring of life and knock out headaches with a mean, Rocky Balboa-strength right hook.

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