A Recipe For Healthy Hair By Joanne Elliott
Forget hair revitalizing shampoos, great nutrition is the most effective way of getting awesome hair!
Shiny, healthy hair is a reflection of a healthy body, so it's like two for the price of one. Just like your body, your hair needs a balanced, nutritious diet to stay healthy. So follow this recipe for healthier hair, and be amazed at the difference it makes!
Water:
Water makes up one-fourth of the weight of a strand of hair. Moisture makes the hair supple, so make sure you get plenty of fluids. A key point is NOT to wait until you're thirsty. If you're thirsty, it means your body has already lost more water than it should have, and it's urging you to fill up the tank. Water not only hydrates your body, but helps keep your hair silky and shiny. Ideally, you should drink between eight and ten glasses of water a day.
Protein:
Protein is the building block of hair, so a diet for healthy hair contains an awful lot of protein! Protein will give the shaft of your hair more strength, and will reduce the likelihood of dame through snapping and splitting. You can get protein from foods like fish, meat, milk, cheese and cereals.
Minerals:
Iron helps to carry oxygen to the hair. Without enough iron, hair and its follicles get starved of oxygen. This means that the 'goodness' in the root of your hair is much less effective along the length of the strand. You can increase your iron intake by eating red meat and dark green vegetables, or by iron supplements.
Zinc builds hair protein which helps to prevent hair loss. Meat and seafood are the foods highest in zinc.
Copper is involved in the pigmentation of hair. You can optimize your natural color with a diet with plenty of copper. Who needs hair dye and fake color! Shellfish, liver, fresh vegetables, nuts, seeds and meat are all high in copper.
Vitamins:
Vitamin A will give you a healthy scalp, because it's great for the skin! You can get vitamin A from foods like vegetables - in particular, in carrots. (So it's good for the waistline too!)
Vitamin B and C are important for good circulation, hair growth and hair color. If you ensure that you have enough vitamin B and C, you'll have strong, supple strands of hair that do not split. You can get these vitamins from eating foods like fruit, vegetables, cereals, eggs, milk and bread.
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Practice balance diet for healthy nutrition.
Set your blow dryer on cool and dry only at the scalp, let ends of the hair dry on their own. This will help keep hair healthy looking and prevent hair ends from splitting or breaking. - Cheryl A. - Detroit
Once a week put a deep conditioning treatment product on your hair and wrap it with a hot moist towel for 10 min. Then, rinse and style. It'll make your hair look great! We recommend FS Hair Care Intensive Conditioner for best results. - Cheryl N. - New York
Love your hair. This may sound obvious, but it often isn't to a lot of people. Hair has energy and spirit just like every other part of your body and it responds better to kindness and love than neglect and anger. If you hate your hair and ignore it, it will be like a flower that you don't water. It will wilt and die. Show your hair total love and respect and it will blossom and grow and be beautiful.
Athletes need the same balance of nutrients as their more sedentary counterparts, although special demands of intensive sports training require extra energy.
Carbohydrates
Skin problems range from the simple to the complicated including serious infections and cancer of the skin. The skin also reflects a person's state of health in many ways including nutritional status. The most common form of skin problems, dry skin, or xeroderma, does not reflect any underlying illness; instead, the skin loses some of the lustre that confer a pliable feel and appearnce. Some people experience improvements of dry skin conditions by boosting there intake of vitamins A and C, the B_group vitamins and zinc.
How the Normal Diet is Modified
The normal diet is modified by reducing the amount of fats such as meat fat, milk, cream and butter, margarine, cooking fat, cheese, and egg, and using some oils instead, the best being corn oil, safflower, sunflower seed oil, soya bean oil, and fish oils.
The total amount of animal fat to use will be prescribed by the doctor. It is usual to restrict the amount of butter or margarine, the number of eggs, and the amount of whole milk. Restricting butter or margarine means less vitamin A and D in the diet.
Fresh fruits and vegetables for vitamins A and C and other antioxidants. Strive to have five to nine servings each day.
Fatty fish like pangash and hilsha for vitamin D. Other good sources are eggs, fortified milk, and margarine. Eat three servings daily
Lean meats, poultry, fish and eggs for protein, which is needed to heal damaged tissue. The diet should provide at least two servings daily
At no other time in a woman's life is good nutrition more essential than during pregnancy. While the need for calories increases only about 15 per cent, the requirements for some nutrients more than doubles, and a woman needs 10 plan her diet carefully to meet these requirements. She should work with her doctor or other health professionals providing prenatal care to design an eating programme that supplies optimal nutrition for her and her baby. As a matter of fact any woman planning a pregnancy should also evaluate her eating habits.
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