The Headache Prevention Cookbook: Eating Right to Prevent Migraines and Other Headaches
If you’re one of the 50 million Americans who suffer from headaches, you can eliminate the pain entirely just by changing the way you eat. A headache sufferer himself, Dr. David Marks treats thousands of patients a year at his internationally known headache clinic. The recipes in this book can help you ward off headaches while ensuring that you eat well in the bargain.Food can’t cure headaches, but avoiding certain foods may prevent them, according to author David R. Marks, medical director of the New England Center for Headache. Some foods commonly trigger headaches in some people. If you’re a headache sufferer, eliminating those foods from your diet is a sensible second step towards managing headaches. (The first step is to see your doctor to determine if there is some underlying condition that is causing the headaches.) The key is to go on an elimination diet that avoids trigger foods such as most cheeses, chocolate, nuts, certain meats, preservatives, artificial sw… More >>
The Headache Prevention Cookbook: Eating Right to Prevent Migraines and Other Headaches
Heal Your Headache is a practical book with many insights about why people suffer from headaches. David Buchholz makes concepts easy to understand without pretending that he knows everything. This book really gives the reader the power to choose his or her destiny. Buchholtz sets the framework, backed up by medical wisdom and real life stories, to help the reader find out the cause of his or her own headache troubles. The charts showing what can cause headaches are perfect for quick reference. The sample menus in the back make preparing meals easier. I recommend this book to anyone who is a headache sufferer of any kind. Why go through needless tests when the power is in your hands?
I thought this book was a great starting place when trying to eliminate migraine triggers. As other reviewers have said, the recipies do lack some things as far as being really healthy or having some triggers in the recipies. But it is a great starting point. Besides, most people don’t react to ALL the triggers.
It was refreshing to find things I could eat in place of a list of what I could not eat.
After reading Heal Your Headache by Dr. Buchholz, I was anxious to find a good headache-prevention cookbook. But I need a cookbook in which ALL the recipes are free of the commonly known food triggers. Isn’t that the point? Well, this book has many recipes with known headache triggers. Apparently we are expected to know which foods are triggers for us and to then alter the recipes accordingly. Well, I’m tired of having to alter recipes! That’s what I have to do all the time with regular cookbooks. I thought that this cookbook would be different, but I was wrong. I appreciate that some food triggers are avoided here, but what about all the commonly known triggers that ARE in these recipes, such as lemon juice, orange juice, and onions? I bought the book, tried 3-4 recipes (none particularly good), then threw the book away.
As a vegetarian, I knew I was taking a chance with this title. However, I had just committed to Dr. Buchholz’s 1-2-3 Program for healing headaches & was eager to try it out. Needless to say, being a vegetarian isn’t a good fit and sooo many of the recipes in the book contained the triggers I was supposed to avoid. Very disappointed!
Like most headache sufferers, I’d do anything to get rid of my migranes.
While I knew that food had a big impact on headaches, I didn’t know much about it. This book provides all the answers including which foods to eat and which to avoid. Then the book offers “headache-free” recipes which is a must if you like to eat many of the “banned” foods.
The recipes I’ve tried so far have been outstanding and relatively easy to make. I can honestly say that, at least for now, I look forward to making something new every night.
It was comforting for me that the book was written by two medical doctors including Dr. David Marks, a Yale educated headache specialist. I find that most non-medical solutions to medical problems come from nutritionists who lack the professional training and education of a doctor.
While I don’t believe food is the only source of headaches, understanding the food-headache relationship is important. The results speak for themselves…since reading this book, I’ve definitly had fewer and less severe headaches.