A great guide

I think there is a newer version, as my "page 28" is part of the table of contents. I bought mine from the Diamond Heache Clinic in July 2004.

No where in the recipe section is there an ingredient that contains tyramine or msg.

I highly value this book. The recipes are easy and tasty, and the scientific and medical sections are a wonderful supplemental resource to the disease of migraine.

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Somewhat useful, but a bit out of date.

This book seems quite dated for its copyright date of 1990; it is somewhat inconsistent with the currently favored fresh-is-best and low fat cuisine. The use of canned soups in the recipes is surprising in light of the fact that they are on the `foods to avoid' list on page 28. Since the assumption is that greater quantities of tyramine cause headache, it would have been useful to have tables of the estimated tyramine content of each food. Then, one could better gauge how much can be tolerated without repercussion. Recent material available over the internet identifies more foods with high tyramine content, including onions, canned tuna, all nuts, and hot yeast breads. An updated version of this book would be most welcome.

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