(note: somewhat orthagonal to the discussion of diet v.s. headaches)

I do understand commitment--I have been married over 15 years, and the last 4 have been not worth the effort, but I'm not really suffering because of it (and there's a little kid involved, which is a separate commitment).

But you're basically saying that if my wife starts punching me in the mouth every day, then I should stay with her just because I made a long term commitment. As the kids today say "that's fuxord"

Almost every human being has distinct genes, and once we hit the world and those genes start to express themselves we get wildly divergent results.

if I could prove to you that a cheese burger a day and ONLY a cheese burger (or some sort of steak) would greatly reduce the severity and frequency of your headaches, would you STILL insist on a diet deficient in dead cow flesh? (leave aside that you ate cheese burgers as a kid and it didn't help).

All Jimrandomh is suggesting is that you may want to be willing to test whether some combination of foods will help. If, in the end it doesn't, well ok. If, OTOH your find that my cheese burger fixes you this doesn't mean that you can't go back to the diet you've committed to, but at least then you know (sort of) why you have the problem and if you need to modulate it (for example you know a tough week is coming up) you can take steps.

(that said, while i think that well raised pork and beef are healthy in appropriate quantities, you can have a healthy diet without them and I would be really surprised to find out that they helped your problem)

Oh, and again to the crispy thing: I seem to remember my mom making fried zuchini at some point. I couldn't stand it.