Food that can affect our singing voice

Food that can affect our singing voice

Some singers always believe that eating okro , egg etc. Will make their voice good without asking their self how can those food affect the voice and  make it sound better as the believe? What is the chemical reaction of that food in the body when ever we take it or how does you as an individual react to those food.
Also the food we eat doesn't passthrough our vocal cords but it still affect the voice but how?
Yes you might have been wondering how the food can affect the voice even when it doesn't pass through our vocal cord. As a  vocal Coach have been able to use my experience to come up with this post.

Let do little medical explanation 

I want you to know that the food you eat affect the whole body and it very obvious right? Because it gives you energy and even my your vocal cords grow more large. Of it weren't be food you couldn't have been alive and your vocal cords wouldn't be alive.
This means your vocals too is a affected that's because it a chemical substances. Take for another example the drugs you take for cough and catarrh. When you are taking the drugs do you try to put them in your windpipe for it to be effective No! You don't try such deathly act. 

Ok now you know chemical substances can affect the voice  that means the food we eat can affect the voice in many ways and those are the many ways we will be talking about now.

Ways food can affect the singing food

As I said the are many ways food can affect the voice and here are some of them so that before you take any food you try to examine yourself if the food you eat is affecting you in the following way below

1.) Increase mucus secretion

Mucus secretion is very important to the body as it helps to trap deathly bacteria  or harmful substances that may have enter through the nose to affect your body negatively, by bringing out of the body  inform of  catarrh through the windpipe to the nose. This secretion (release) occur when you take in too Much bacteria through your nose in the process of inhalation. The body will be force to release mucus.  so mucus is produce by the body with the help of food we eat.
That's why you notice when you sweep dust  at home and you don't cover your nose and you inhale all those bacteria you will start having catarrh the next day. That's the body fighting the bacteria.

Now sadly this secretion of mucus also have bad effect on the voice when we Sing, Because air won't pass freely in the windpipe when we sing and it becomes worst when you eat food the helps to release more of this mucus e.g of the food is milk. Food makes us healthy right by helping Fighting deathly bacteria in other words helping in more secretion of mucus.
 Taking of antibiotics or drugs to help fight this bacteria will help reduce the amount of secretion of mucus. (Note only take antibiotics when you notice mucus has been released). 
Some people notice more mucus release more often in  their body when the eat these mucus secretion  food such as dairy, stimulants such as caffeine and spicy foods, soft drinks, refined sugars, chocolate, iced drinks and alcohol (including wine and beer).

2.) Drying the thr itoat

As a Singer you want your voice to always be at it best and that's why it always advisable for us Singers to take warm water but cold water is also good but not very effective when we talk about treating the voice. 
Some vocal coach may say food doesn't pass through the vocal cords but why do you drink water does water pass through the vocal cords?  Don't get confuse ok  let me break it down again. When the throat is dry the voice doesn't sounds very good it breaks, that's because the throat is dry. In other words the throat is also responsible for sound production when we sing but we didn't notice it.

  That's why you drink warm water for the throat and vocal cords too, the heat from the water will radiate  to the vocal folds. In physic we were thought how sun heat reaches us through radiation (no physical touching of the sun to feel the heat).

Now that you know, do you also know the are food that makes you to drink water often? 
Oh yes I noticed mine when I drink tea(milk and chocolate) in the morning I will always be so thirsty throughout that morning. This shows that chocolate can increasing  dehydration making you to drink more water it may not be chocolate that works for you but another food but take note of the food that can cause you to be thirsty all the time. I didn't say stop eating any food but take note of it because it necessary.

3.) Food that can irritated the throat

As a singer you are being advise not to take alcohol because it bad to the voice. Some singers assume that it improves their performance for me, my own experience was terrible when I took alcohol.

 But note those food or chemical substances you take and you start noticing bad  side effects in your voice and then the choice Is yours if you're to stop it totally or avoid it for sometimes for some certain reason (performance).
 Remember still the throat the alcohol passes through and not the vocal cords but it still affect the voice! 

4.) Food that contain a lot of oil

From my own experience food that contains alot of Palm oil affect my voice and I clean my Vocal using the technique I showed you in my old post if you haven't read it. Scroll up and click the left arrow above going back then you will see all my old post. But when we eat oily food this one will only affect the voice in a short time because it not a body reaction but just oil drops on the throat.  But to be in a safe side you have to.take note of all the things that can reduce your performances as a singer.

Conclusion

The food we eat can affect the Singing voice and our singing by  causing excessive production of mucus, , drying the throat , irritating the throat and oil drops on the throat after eating. Do your own research and take note of the food that affects your voice in the above reasons.

For your voice to be at it best for a few days ahead performance you have to avoid this food then after your performance you can go back to your normal diet. Same way as  student to perform well in examination he or she has to avoid some certain activities during exams time  and read seriously to perform very well in his or her exams. 

As a singer having a healthy voice adding with a consistent Practice of what you want to perform will make you perform more better. 

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my name is Israel Ndiku am a writer and from Nigeria

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