Migraines have been linked to excessive eating. In this video, Dr. Robin Miller discusses why women who had regular migraines when they were younger often end up overweight.
To women with migraines ultimately have weight problems. It looks like they do. Girls who have migraine headaches early on in life gain on average 22 pounds more after age 18 than those who don't have migraine headaches. Oh dear well so, then do migraines headaches somehow affect eating? Well, looks like they might because actually when girls lose weight, when they're less than 18 they have fewer migraines.
Those who're having migraines have less and they tend not to gain weight later on as well.
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