Diet and Dizziness: Foods to Eat and Avoid for Better Balance
Hint: Water is important, too!
I’m pretty mindful of my eating — I try to eat fruits and vegetables and limit salt and processed things. My weakness? Soda. I drink 6 to 7 cans per day and don’t have much water.
- Pam, 60 years old, on her nutrition & hydration habits
We reviewed Pam’s lifestyle habits because her dizziness would come and go. She had a combination of BPPV (the spinning dizziness with position changes), vestibular hypofunction (inner ear weakness), and oculomotor impairment (weakness of her left eye muscles). She showed great improvements then would regress.
Her nutrition habits were good, but hydration was an issue. Once we identified her overconsumption of soda and underconsumption of water and tied that to her dizziness, things started changing. She did an AMAZING job cutting back on her soda intake and within a few weeks, was down to 1 soda per week and drinking 6 to 8 glasses of water per day.
Guess what else? Her dizziness went away. She continued to work on her exercises as well, but noticed a significant improvement in the quality of her life.
Dizziness and vertigo can turn the world around you into a disorienting, challenging place. Whether you’re dealing with benign paroxysmal positional…
