DIET FOR THE HEADACHE SUFFERER Read labels and ask questions when eating out. Tyramine content can vary among brand names available on the market because of preparation, processing or storage. Tenderizers, MSG, nitrate, or nitrite compounds are likely to be provoking agents.

Beverages

Foods Allowed

Decaffeineted coffee, fruit juices, club soda, decaffeinated colas (7-up, ginger ale). Alcholoic beverages least likely to trigger headaches include Haute Sauterne, Riesling, vodka, Seagram's VO, Cutty Sark. Limit wine, port wine, and distilled spirits to 4 ounces or less.

Foods to Avoid

Limit Caffeine sources to 8 ounces daily: coffee, tea, cola type soday; chocolate milk, cocoa. Alcoholic beverages to avoid: ale, beer, chianti, sherry, burgundy, vermouth.

Meat, Fish, Poultry

Foods Allowed

Fresh prepared meats, fish, poultry and eggs

Foods to Avoid

Aged, canned, cured, or processed meats, canned or aged ham, pickeled herring, salted dried fish, chicken liver, aged game, hot dogs, sausages (no nitrates or nitrites); bologna, salami, pepporoni, summer sausage; any meat prepared with meat tenderizers, soy sauce, or yeast extracts.

Dairy

Foods Allowed

Mill: homoginized, 2% or skim, Cheese: American, cottage, gouda, farmer, ricotta, cream cheese, velveeta, yogurt. Limit sour cream to _ cup.

Foods to Avoid

Aged, mature cheese: blue, boursault, brick, brie types, camembert types, cheddar, swiss, roquefort, stilton, mozzarella, parmesan, provolone, romano, emmentaler.

Bread/Cereals/Starchy Vegetables

Foods Allowed

Commercial breads. All hot and dry cereals. White potato, sweet potato, rice and pasta.

Foods to Avoid

Sourdough bread, breads and crackers containing cheese or chocolate.

Vegetables

Foods Allowed

All except those to avoid. Use with caution in preperation: navey beans, pinto beans.

Food to Avoid

Broad beans, italian beans, lima, lentils, snow peas, fava beans, soy beans and sauerkraut.

Fruit

Foods Allowed

Allexcetp those to avoid

Foods to Avoid

Limit to _ cup daily: avacado, bannan, citrus, figs, raisins,papaya, passion fruit, red plums, and raspberries.

Soups

Foods Allowed

Cream soups made from foods allowed. Homemade broths.

Foods to Avoid

Canned soups, soup cubes, bouillon cubes, soup bases with autolyzed yeast or monosodium glutamate (MSG). Read Lables.

Desserts

Foods Allowed

Fruits, sherberts, ice cream, cakes, cookies, and jell-o

Foods to Avoid

Use with caution products conaining chocolate.

Sweets and Hard Candy

Food Allowed

Sugar, jelly, jam, honey and syrup.

Food to Avoid

Chocolate candies, licorice, molasses and chocolate syrup

Miscellaneous

Foods Allowed

Salt in moderation, vinigars and commercial salad dressing in small amounts. Please read all labels carefully on snack foods.

Foods to Avoid

Read lables carefully. Avoid commercial frozen t.v. dinners and pizza with cheese. Nuts and seeds, peanuts, peanut butter, pumpkin and sesame seeds. Any pickeled, preserved, or marinated foods should be avoided. Again, please read all lables carefully.