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Health
5 Foods That Can Trigger Migraine Pain
Depending on the ingredients of what you ate, your body is telling you to leave those foods alone. Take a look at the top 5:
1. Processed Meat: Meats like sausage, hot dogs, and sandwich meat all con- tain sodium nitrate, a preservative linked with headaches.
2. Aspartame: This is the
artificial sweetener found in
diet sodas. Studies show that
aspartame causes cancerous
cells to form. While many
consumers feel like they are
doing the smart thing by
substituting the common
sugar with “diet” sugar, but in
many cases it’s worse for the body. This sweetener also causes headaches in case you were wondering.
3. Aged Cheese:
Okay, some of us think
we’re from France and
love cheese so old it has
enough mold on it to be
thrown away in most cir-
cles. The stinkier the bet-
ter...right? Well if a little
(or a lot) of mold on
cheese doesn’t bother
you, the possibility of a
migraine forming may. Aged cheese.
4. Red Wine: All alcohol can lead to a migraine. Alcohol can lead to dehydration and as a symptom of dehydration, a migraine may form. Moreover, red wine gives a higher proba- bility of producing a migraine than other alcoholic beverages. Why? Obviously, alcohol is a big part of the threat. But did you know that other ingredients such as yeast, tannins, oak, and other additives also contribute to the possibility of a throbbing headache?
5. MSG: Monosodium glutamate or MSG has gotten a bad rap over the years for links to obesity. It’s a current health trend to cut out MSG-rich foods from your diet. Here’s another rea- son to: it’s linked to migraine headaches.
Why Do Your Eyelashes Hurt?
Do your eyelashes ever hurt to the touch, especially at the root? Turns out, there could be a couple reasons why. The first could be that you’re not removing all your eye makeup before going to bed.
Another reason? It could be blepharitis, but in addi- tion to eyelash pain, you’d experience some swelling, flakes around the eye, and burning, gritty eyes. If left
untreated (see your doctor or optometrist right away), blepharitis can lead to pink eye or a sty.
It can be easy to forget
that lash hairs are just like the hair on our heads in the sense that you have to prop- erly care for them if you want them to look and feel amazing.
Tips for caring for your lashes include:
Protect and strengthen your lashes.
• Completely remove your eye makeup before you go to bed.
• Moisturize your lashes.
Women: Are You Experiencing Hair Loss?
Oh no! Not the hair! Ladies, we have got to figure out how to take better care of our hair, while accomplishing all of our many re- sponsibilities.
Alopecia, along with other hair disorders, are real and sometimes can be permanently damaging if not dealt with appropriately.
Types Of Stress-Related Hair Loss
Telegen Effluvium - This disorder puts your hair in a hair coma. Essentially, the stress that your body is under puts several of your hair follicles into a resting phase, keep- ing it from growing. After an extended pe- riod of time those same hair follicles weaken and suddenly fall out.
Alopecia Areata - This disorder deals with your immune system, which is meant to protect the body from disease, viruses and bacteria. When the body is under stress, the immune system can sometimes attack itself, and in this case, it attacks your hair follicles.
This leads to hair loss often in small patches. Trichotillomania - This is a disorder that causes self-inflicted harm. It causes someone to compulsively pull their own hair
out from any part of their own body. Prevention - None of us want to experi- ence these types of hair issues, but unfortu-
nately, many of us do.
Here are some quick tips to try and keep
your hair, scalp and stress in check. • See a doctor.
• Healthier diet.
• Exercise.
• Sleep.
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