It's a question that perturbs most women and many men - what is it that you can do to make your hair grow thicker, faster and more luxuriantly. Hair affects people so deeply, half of all women would probably cry after a poor haircut; and some of the most finely composed and thoroughly detailed complaints women can have about themselves can go to the texture of their hair. So if good hair can make you happy, does anyone know how to get it? Everyone knows the basics (having thoroughly scoured every magazine release of healthy hair tips all their lives). You're supposed avoid stress, adopt a healthy diet, and do a reasonable amount of exercise. But isn't there something that you can do that goes above and beyond the regular stuff? Recent research finds that there is - even if the solution is pretty low-tech. If you always believed that you were what you ate, here is new evidence for it - if you want hair that's lustrous, glossy and luxuriant, you'd better think of better ways to stack that plate of yours.
You'd be ready to accept it if anyone told you that you have to have a better diet for stronger muscles and help your bones; what could be difficult about believing that you need food for healthier hair follicles as well? Think of every meal you sit down to as something that's not far removed from a session at a great spa. Let's get started with our list of healthy hair tips at the dinner table.
You wouldn't think it to look at them, but eggs, the cooking ingredient that even the most 10 thumbed cook could manage in a flash, happen to be panacea for your hair. Now why should eggs be great for your hair you ask? To begin with, each shiny egg that you help onto your plate supplies you with up to 5 g of wholesome protein. Would you happen to remember from grade school that hair is made of protein? And this would also explain why egg happens to be an important ingredient in most shampoos. Eggs also have boatloads of animal B12 - the thing that helps keep your hair from graying. So point proved - get an egg sandwich or egg salad as often as possible, and you should be golden.
Up next on our list of healthy hair tips comes another proven point - and it's to do with the contribution that iron has in keeping your noggin warm and furry. There's been research done at the Cleveland clinic that goes to saying as much. Iron deficiency may not cause any baldness all by itself; it will make things worse if hair fall starts on its own though. The answer is simple then if you want to keep that proud shock of hair, you'd better pile your plate up with oysters, soy, fortified cereals and lean beef. And it's a pretty easy excuse to dig into a nice meaty steak a couple of times a week. The beef gets you heme iron - the kind that is easiest on your body.
The body isn't very good at absorbing the iron you give it - about three parts in four is just wasted. That seems a shame though; isn't there something we can do? As luck would have it, there is - Vitamin C. Try topping it all off with a kiwi or two.