Can a Healthy Diet Help Limit Migraine?

Can a Healthy Diet Help Limit Migraine? (0:44)

For patients with migraine, it's important not to go hungry. Skipping meals can trigger migraine, says Emily Rubenstein Engel, MD, of the Dalessio Headache Center at Scripps Clinic. In this video, she explains.

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Absolutely healthy diet helps pretty much everything. And it's important to eat a varied healthy diet importantly for patients with migraine it's important not to go hungry and part of the problem with patients being given a very restrictive diet is there are almost always not told don't skip breakfast, don't skip lunch because skipping meals is really a very reliable trigger for migraine.

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