Starting a few years back, I've experienced frequent headaches, which turn rapidly into nausea, unless I sleep. I thought they might be caused by having an out-of-date lens prescription, but it turns out my eyes haven't changed for some time. So I told my eye doctor what's been going on and mentioned that I usually got a headache when I didn't eat on a normal schedule. He said they're probably hypoglycemia-induced migraines, and the best way to prevent them would be to control my diet. (I now remember the all-nighters working on Sphere in my early college years, and how I'd be kind of dizzy and shaky in the hours leading up to breakfast.) Cut to a few weeks later...

I found this bag of "Lump Candy"* in the Asian food section of the grocery store. Since I have this habit of buying new random things every time I restock my pantry, I picked it up. The bag contained lumps of crystallized sugar. I would eat a few pieces a day, and what do you know, the headaches went away! If I came home from school a little hungry and stressed, I'd eat a few pieces while cooking dinner. That would hold off the headache's onset long enough to get some real food in me. Alas, I finished the bag a couple weeks ago. The headaches are coming back and Kool-aid isn't cutting it. Maybe I can order bags of it directly from somewhere...

* Pure sucrose and water, straight from China! Energy content measured in kilojoules, and it's an "ideal food for the young and the old!".