Feed Your Hair
06 Dec 2009 Leave a Comment
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
Dealing with the acne menace (2)
02 Jul 2009 Leave a Comment
in Antioxidant, Beautiful Matte Base, Common Knowledge, Damaging Skin, Healthy Living, Less Popular, Little Red Bump, Reputable Dermatologist, Worse Things Tags: Acne Outbreak, Androgenic Activity, Antioxidant, Birth Control Pills, Damage Skin, Diane 35, Estrogen, Glutathione, Green Tea Capsule, Hormonal Imbalance, Knowledge, Makeup Base, Matte Finish, Poison, Post-menstrual Pimple, Progesterone, Raise Testosterone Levels, Red Bump, Shu Uemura XTR Protector, Skin Condition, Stress, Sunblock, Testosterone, Velvety Texture, Whitening Supplement
Fortunately, for us, supercharged sunblock is readily available. I like the velvety texture of Shu Uemura XTR Protector.
It leaves a beautiful matte finish, and works well as a makeup base, too.
And with a whopping SPF 50, the Protector won’t allow those rays to get anywhere near your skin.
Hormonal imbalance
Every month, I have to deal with what I call my PMP, which is just a cute-ified moniker for “post-menstrual pimple.”
And it never fails. The day after the main event stops, a little (or monstrous, at times) red bump will appear somewhere on my face.
It’s quite forgivable for the hormones to go berserk once a month, but there are a few women whose hormones just can’t stop jumping around and damaging the skin.
But while common knowledge dictates that birth control pills may end this dilemma once and for all, studies have shown that some pills available in the market actually aggravate the problem. The poison? Testosterone. A number of brands raise androgenic activity and raise testosterone levels as a result.
Stick to preparations with progesterone and estrogen like Diane 35, or consult with a reputable dermatologist.
Stress
It’s no secret. Stress can make things worse. And the stress shows on your face.
Stress worsens acne more than it causes it, sure, but it’s not something you can simply ignore.
The technicality lies in, again, your hormones. When stress strikes, your body produces cortisol, which has been long known to trigger acne outbreaks.
So how do we deal with it? For one, take the tried-and-tested solution with healthy living. Take antioxidants like Vitamin C and Vitamin E, or upgrade with green tea capsules (like popular brand TeGreen, which is said to be 100 times more potent than Vitamin C).
A less popular antioxidant, Glutathione, is usually known as a whitening supplement, but can also help improve skin conditions. - Lora Gahol
E-mail the author at lora_gahol@yahoo.com or lgahol@pldtvibe.net
