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Food companies and their misleading labels

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Food is for nutrition and to provide the body with energy and vital nutrients. Names of foods help us to know what the likely ingredients might be in it. But often, we notice that food names are misleading. They can fool a person into buying only to realize that it did not meet their expectations and imagination. For instance, take the example of samosa. An ideal samosa is refined wheat flour (maida) wrap with mashed potatoes and boiled peas inside. And when we say paneer samosa (cottage cheese stuffed fried dumplings), the picture that comes to our mind is of a wrap of refined wheat flour dough with paneer inside. But to your disappointment, you will find that these samosas are nothing but the normal samosas with mashed potatoes with or without boiled peas and just 1 small piece of cottage cheese at one corner!!! If we talk about rusks, most of these are made of refined wheat flour or maida which is not healthy. Maida is stripped of all the vital nutrients such as fiber, vitamins,

9 headache-causing drinks in patients with migraine!

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 Headaches are common but come with different frequencies. In some with migrainous headaches, it is more frequent. In them, certain foods can also cause them. But often, they tend to forget that there are also certain liquids that can trigger these headaches. Which are these fluids or drinks that people with migraine should be careful about? 1. Alcohol and alcoholic beverages The notorious among these alcohols is the red wine. It has three times more power than beer to trigger the headache. The other alcohols that can cause it are beers, white wine, whiskey, champagne, Scotch, liqueur etc. These drinks have sulfites, tyramine, histamines in them that cause these attacks. Alcoholic drinks also exert a diuretic effect on the body. This leads to dehydration and dehydration or fluid loss causes headache.The quantity consumed also matters more than the kind of drink. Also, highly processed wines are more hurtful. Low input wines use native yeast that add very little SO2 and  sulfites into i