If some of the great Chef Escoffier's famous dishes can be updated and remain delicious, lighter and more nutritious by his professional heirs and - bonus! - made healthier as well, why not do the same with your favorite recipes? Lightening up your ingredients will not only improve your health...

There isn't enough room in a single newspaper column to list the wealth of spiritual, mental, physical, and philosophical aspects of the practice of yoga, an ancient Indian discipline. As I suggest you do with all the therapies and practices in this column, I invite you to read up more fully on...

Hippocrates did not have to deal with this situation - computers did not exist during his era… modern life has added to the long list of migraine triggers. Thankfully, there are modern solutions to help you to minimize this trigger's impact.  Ergonomics: Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines "ergonomics" as "an applied...

Caffeine is a migraine on/off switch. It can be such an essential factor in helping some migraine sufferers deal with their pain that it is a main ingredient in certain pharmaceutical prescriptions against migraines.  For some unlucky migraine sufferers, caffeine can be a vital migraine headache trigger.  What logic lies behind...

Sexual intercourse, either engaging in or lack thereof. (Migraines will teach you moderation, whether you like it or not!) This is potentially a more complex trigger to deal with since it involves another human being's health needs as well. What further complicates the matter - as is the case with some...

Exercise - very rigorous, causing the blood to rush to the head or couch potato level, which causes a sufferer's immune system to deteriorate - either extreme is probably not the best for the migraine condition. Tempted to believe that the endorphins, the "runner's high," the extreme exercisers' rush of...

Food additives - these are probably what a standup comic meant when he discussed reading ingredient labels on food packaging and stated, "I'll never eat what I can't pronounce or spell." To get the best nutrition out of what you eat and drink, it's worth educating yourself.  According to the Oxford Languages...

Foods: some of the more well-known offenders on the migraine food trigger list are: chocolate, nuts, cheese, cured meats, refined sugar, and sugar substitutes. There are more - the migraine sufferers can keep a food diary of what they ate and drank prior to an attack, compare it to their migraine diary,...

Noise - from music to jackhammers - all sounds are a painful addition to the sufferer's pounding headache. Usually, a migraine sufferer needs a soundless room to begin to recover. (Noise is sound that your body perceives as unpleasant, unhealthy.) Stimulation of any kind of sound to the inflamed nerves in your skull...

Illegal drugs - it should surprise no one that a Quality Assurance Department is not a priority for an illegal drug manufacturer - who knows what is used to "cut" and "extend" the basic product?  So it's nearly impossible to determine, either the basic substance or beyond that, which part...