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Headaches, friends and enemies food – Italian Cuisine

Migraine is also taken care of at the table: some foods, from potatoes to ginger, can help to defeat it. Others, like meats and cheeses, make their symptoms more annoying

Headache it can be an annoying travel companion who gets up with us in the morning and does not abandon us until the end of the day. There are different types, caused by various factors, including the stress, the lack of sleep or eye strain. Even nutrition can play an important role: some foods contain substances that can trigger it (in this case it is migraine, pulsating pain and localized in one part of the head), others can instead relieve the pain.

The foods to avoid

Assuming that each of us is sensitive differently to the influence of nutrition on headaches, there are different foods and substances from which anyone should stay away to dodge headaches. First of all thealcohol, which accelerates the blood flow and releases harmful toxins: a prolonged headache is not by chance the most frequent memory of an evening with a high alcohol content. But to increase the pressure also contribute tyramine and phenylethylamine: we must not therefore exaggerate with aged cheeses, yogurt and sausages. Salami and red meat are also a source of nitrates, preservatives capable of stimulating headaches. A little surprise, also attention to chocolate: cocoa is a concentrate of histamine, which has more or less the same effect. To be taken in small doses monosodium glutamate: a substance that abounds in kitchen nuts, in the soy sauce (very common in oriental cuisine) and in cheeses. Net of sudden headaches caused by the ingestion of cold food (better to drink water at room temperature and eat ice cream slowly), a good advice related to nutrition is to never skip breakfast nor remain fasting for a long time: it is often the lack of glucose in the blood that causes pain.

Allies against headaches

In contrast, eating certain foods can help fight the symptoms of headaches. It starts from potatoes (better if you eat with the peel): i complex carbohydrates they generally promote nerve relaxation by releasing serotonin and long-range energy, while the potassium it's great for blood vessels. As well as the magnesium, which together with salicin makes the almonds one of the best natural remedies for headache. Acts also against pain chili pepper, thanks to capsaicin, le bananas, i spinach and i flax and sesame seeds. But the real panacea in these situations is ginger, a spice used since ancient times as an analgesic: an infusion or a toffee can have the same effects as traditional medicines. It is also important to drink a lot: a liter and a half of water a day, associated with the consumption of fruit is vegetable fresh, keeps dehydration away, one of the main causes of headaches.

Coffee, but not too much

Coffee, on the other hand, is a double-edged sword, because it can fall into both categories: caffeine is in fact a prompt remedy capable of reducing the pain caused by the headache, but at the same time, if taken in large quantities, it causes addiction. Drinking more than three coffees a day can therefore have the opposite effect and cause painful withdrawal headaches when the appointment with the espresso is skipped.

STARS AND FOOD – AQUARIUS – WEEK FROM 21 TO 27 JANUARY – Italian Cuisine

Fortuborn from the 21 January al 19 February

The chef recommends: Meanwhile, Best wishes to come to all #ACQUARIO. Simon opens like this: Imagine having a puzzle under your eyes. There are two priorities: having all the pieces at your disposal, but above all having a clear overview of the picture to be recomposed. He also says not to delay any more but to start the action mode, and this is also the highlight at the table, do not stop more in moments of indecision, you want to eat or drink something special, do it! After all, the Full Moon is there and affects everyone, pushes to do things more clearly and decisively. Even a vegetable considered trivial or simply not considered can reveal itself as an accomplice of an excellent dish as a whole.

Dish of the week: Spaghetti with lobster with cream of red turnips that can be an excellent variant to this recipe with in addition the cream made from steamed beets!

Magic fruit: Oranges and citrus fruit also excellent as a sweet after a meal!

Do you give food to the poor? You will pay less tax – Italian Cuisine

A municipality in Valle d'Aosta decided it: the discount is reserved for commercial and productive activities that give food to associations that deal with needy people for at least twice a year.

Do you give food to the poor? You will receive one discount on the waste tax. It provides for the change to the regulation of the Tari that was approved in recent days by the municipal administration of Pont-Saint-Martin, municipality of Valle d'Aosta.

A nice idea

It was the deputy mayor Fabio Badery, councilor with responsibility for social policies, to present the proposal, which then is nothing more than a national standard which provides for the application of a 'rate reduction coefficient' for commercial and production activities who produce or distribute food and "that for free give, directly or indirectly, such food goods to the needy and to people in greater need or to animal feed". And that therefore, at the same time, they also reduce waste of food.

In order to receive a refund (which may vary depending on the amount of food donated to the charity), the activities will have to donate for at least twice, to associations that deal with people in need or animals in difficulty, more than 50 kilos of food and submit, by 30 April of the following year, a simple card request, with the attestation, filled in by the donor bodies, indicating the quantity of food given as gifts.

The Municipality will apply the reduction of the waste tax (about 20%) or reimbursement directly to the donor's current account. A truly linear and fast procedure. «The limits are deliberately reduced and the particularly streamlined bureaucratic part to allow access to this recognition to all the activities concerned, "explains the municipal administration. «Even those of small size and therefore less structured.