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Helen Yin/Stocksy If you’ve considered changing what you eat in the hopes of preventing migraine attacks, you’re in good company. Many people subtract certain foods from their diets that they believe to be migraine triggers. Others look for a comprehensive, migraine-specific approach to diet, of which several have been proposed over the years. One diet that’s been the subject of a number of studies and reports in professional journals, as described in a June 2020 article in The keto diet calls for people to get about 70 to 80 percent of their daily calories from fats, by consuming foods such as eggs, grass-fed meat, full-fat dairy products, and nuts, and smaller percentages of calories from protein and carbohydrate. Low-carbohydrate vegetables, such as kale, broccoli, asparagus, mushrooms, and zucchini, are recommended for their nutrient and fiber content, while foods that are high in carbohydrate, such as fruit, grains, sugar, and other caloric sweeteners, must generally be avoided.