FAT SWAPS CUT MIGRAINE RISK BY 80%

Avoiding harmful fats like processed vegetable oil can dramatically reduce the number of severe headaches you experience. That’s the word from researchers at the National Institutes of Health. In the study, migraine sufferers who removed unhealthy processed fats from their diet and increased their intake of healthy omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids from whole-food sources for 12 weeks suffered 80% fewer headaches. “What was especially interesting is that the reduction of symptoms accelerated after nine weeks, which suggests a positive feedback cycle,” notes Cate Shanahan, M.D. “If the study duration were longer than 12 weeks, we may have seen even greater improvements—and perhaps zero migraines in some of the study participants.”