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Feed Your Hair

06 Dec 2009 Leave a Comment

by riomay1962 in All-natural Hair Care Products, Appearance of the Hair, Caring Hair Root, Inadequate Diet, Non-living Keratinized Proteins, Poor Dietary Choices, Raw Food Nutrition, Rich Network of Capillaries Tags: Blood Poor Circulation, Blood Vessels, Body and Shine Hair., Capillaries, Chemical Treatments, Cold-pressed Oils, Cortex, Cuticle, Desirability, Diet, Dietary Choices, Dull Hair, Eating for Beauty, Fibrils, Food Nutrition, Fresh Fruits, Fresh Vegetables, Hair, Hair Appearance, Hair Care Products, Hair Central Core, Hair Follicles, Hair Health, Hair Root, Hair Scalp, Hair Shaft, Hair Strands, Healthy Bouncing Hair, Healthy Follicles, Keratinized Protein, Lean Proteins, Living Organism, Malnourish Hair Follicle, Medulla, Minute Strands, Mucus, Network of Capillaries, Nutrient-rich Foods, optimum Hair Health, outermost Layer, Sebaceous Glands, Sebum, Self-esteem, Stress, Tension, Tiptop Shape, Whole Grains, Youthfulness

If you are what you eat, what is your hair made of?  If the answer is fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins and cold-pressed oils, you’re already eating for optimum hair health.

Our perception of ourselves—our youthfulness, self-esteem and desirability—is greatly influenced by the appearance of our hair.  To build esteem, we cut it, color it, curl it, straighten it, perm it and subject it to an array of chemical treatments.  But to get to the root of caring for your hair, you have to start from the inside out.

Your tresses demand the very same care as every other part of your body:   nutrition and nurturing.  Food choices are vital to hair health, since hair is typically the first area of the body to benefit or suffer as a result of poor dietary choices.

Healthy hairs originate in healthy follicles nourished by a rich network of capillaries, the tiny vessels that bring blood to the tissues.  Inadequate diet, in addition to poor circulation due to muscles tightened by stress and tension, can nutritionally shortchange the 100,000 strands that push their way through your scalp.

While the scalp is a living organism, hair is not.  Comprised of non-living keratinized proteins, each hair shaft consists of three parts:  The cuticle, or outermost layer; the cortex, minute strands called fibrils that form 80% of the hair shaft; and the medulla, or central core of the hair.  Sebaceous glands at the scalp’s surface lubricate the firs inch or two of hair with an oily substance called sebum  keeping the remainder of your locks in tiptop shape is up to you.

“Malnourishment of the hair follicle is primarily caused by the clogging of the fine capillaries with mucus from mucus-forming foods,” says David Wolfe, authority on raw food nutrition and author of “Eating for Beauty.  If dull hair is weighing you down, introducing more nutrient-rich foods to you die, in addition to using supplements and all-natural hair care products, can bring back healthy bounce, body and shine. – Susan Weiner