If You Want
Healthier Hair, Eat This
Healthy hair requires a healthy diet.
Hair typically grows a half-inch each month. Restrict your
calories too much, and your hair growth will slow. It could
even fall out. Hair needs a nutrient-rich supply of blood to
the follicles to grow and be its healthy best.
Here's a quick test from InStyle magazine to tell if your
hair is healthy: Stretch a strand of hair by the root when
it's wet. Tug gently. If it stretches about 30 percent of
its length before it breaks, it's healthy. If it snaps
instantly, it's damaged.
Cooking Light magazine and iVillage.com emphasize that
eating a healthy, well-balanced diet with the following
nutrients is one of the best things you can do for your
hair:
Omega-3 fatty acids
Salmon, mackerel, halibut, sardines, herring, flaxseeds,
flaxseed oil, canola oil, soybeans, soybean oil, pumpkin
seeds, pumpkin seed oil, walnuts, and walnut oil.
Zinc
Oysters, cereal, Alaskan King crab, the dark meat of turkey,
cashews, sunflower seeds, spinach, kidney beans, and tofu.
Vitamin B-6
Bananas, salmon, light meat of chicken, sweet potato with
the skin, cod, watermelon, and spinach.
Vitamin B-12
Cereal, top round steak, canned tuna packed in water,
flounder, turkey breast, fruit-flavored yogurt, skim milk,
and mozzarella cheese.
Selenium
Baked potatoes with the skin, roasted pork loin, eggs, top
sirloin, turkey breast, wheat germ, whole wheat bread, and
cashews.
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