Migraines are the most debilitating type of headache, and tension headaches are the most common, but no matter what the type, headaches exact a heavy toll and can be a symptom of an underlying medical condition.
Sometimes headache can also be due to excessive consumption of certain foods like milk, aspartame and chocolate. It can also be due to caffeine withdrawal. Headaches may last for several hours while some experience it for one whole day. Before knowing the available headache cures that you can resort to, it is important to know about the causes of headache first.
Regular exercise can reduce your risk of headaches, and lack of regular physical exercise can leave you more susceptible to chronic headaches. Hiring a personal trainer is good for giving the headache sufferer an overall sense of well-being, and helps to promote good health. Exercise – depending on the individual – ranges from walking, treadmill, stationary bikes to aerobics. We now know that aerobic respiration increases our endorphins (our bodies’ pain-preventing chemicals!) thereby reducing the sensation of headache pain felt!
This infographic provides a description of different types of headaches and a list of different types of recipes to help cure.
Andre Noel Potvin – President and founder of INFOFIT Educators and a Vega Ambassador. INFOFIT, a school for fitness professionals fosters the development in becoming a BCRPA, ACE, ACSM, and NSCA certified personal trainer. He is also an International Speaker, Author of the Great Exercise Handbook series (which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide) and a former Exercise Physiology Instructor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. For information about this topic, please email him at andrenoelpotvin@infofit.ca
