{"id":5634,"date":"2009-02-16T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2009-02-16T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:39:13","slug":"obesity-linked-to-headaches-and-migraines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/obesity-linked-to-headaches-and-migraines\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity Linked to Headaches and Migraines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/stress\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/headache.jpg\" alt=\"headache\" width=\"192\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a>The laundry list of ailments associated with <a title=\"obesity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/obesity\/\" target=\"_self\">obesity<\/a> continue to grow. A few days ago I wrote about how obesity has health effects beyond the more famous (heart problems, diabetes, etc.), such as causing <a title=\"low back pain\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/obesity-and-back-pain\/\" target=\"_self\">chronic low back pain<\/a>. Add headaches to the list.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"obesity may cause migraines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/scienceNews\/idUSTRE51B77820090212?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=scienceNews\" target=\"_self\">U.S. researchers<\/a> say obesity may raise the risk of getting migraines. In a study, 37 percent of women with abdominal obesity (determined by <a title=\"body weight\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/inches-lost-more-accurate-than-scale-weight\/\" target=\"_self\">waist circumference<\/a>) reported experiencing migraines, compared to 29 percent of women who were not obese. For men, 20 percent with abdominal obesity reported migraines as opposed to 16 percent who who weren&#8217;t obese.<\/p>\n<p>An important piece of the puzzle is still missing, however.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we need to look at, well, if people lose weight can we scientifically prove that it helps headaches,&#8221; asked Dr. Lee Peterlin of Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, one of the researchers in the study.<\/p>\n<p>Migraines affect 10 percent of Americans &#8211; about 30 million people &#8211; according to the National Headache Foundation. They take the pain and discomfort of normal headaches to a different level, as they can include nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and noise. They are more common in women and often run in families.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the study found that after age 55, the increased risk of migraines for obese people no longer existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laundry list of ailments associated with obesity continue to grow. A few days ago I wrote about how obesity has health effects beyond the more famous (heart problems, diabetes, etc.), such as causing chronic low back pain. Add headaches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/obesity-linked-to-headaches-and-migraines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[899,31,900,92,383],"class_list":["post-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-headaches","tag-health-news","tag-migraines","tag-obesity","tag-research-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}