Sugar Headaches.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 80

Sugar Headaches.

Dx T. M. Allison' believes that many of ttos eoc&lled " b'lious " attacks are dtue to an excessive intake of sugar. The sugar standard of Natuire is the quantity found im ; milk. The excess taken in food— not alone I as sugar, but also as stareh — is oonverted into tootio acid, whiah irritates the termirat:ons of the gaetrio vagus and sets u<j I the well-jrnown but badl^-named " bilious aXack," with its distressing 1 symptoms of "megrim." — of "whioh the commonest ie , hemi-headache, .generally referred to tiho. i leffe eyeball, and relieved by preesure. — tcf J gether with vonjiting, giddiness, and de^ i pression. The author saye that if sfugaa? wore expansive instead of being cheap there would bo many less yuzzling- cases of headachy foe which eye-strain, hereditary, and various other factors are assigned. - •'■<.