Monday, April 20, 2009

What Should I Have to Prevent Hair Loss?

Making sure certain foods are in your diet will help keep your scalp healthy and hairy.
Hair is primarily made of protein. Eating a protein-rich food can help to maintain healthy hair. Helpful proteins can be found in fish, chicken, calf’s liver, brewer’s yeast, low-fat cheese, eggs, almonds, beans, and yogurt.
Vitamins have proven to cure various hair related problems and hair loss is one of them. If you want to minimize your hair loss, make sure you have plenty of vitamin A and the B vitamins every day.
Vitamin A deficiencies commonly cause thickening of the scalp, dry hair, and dandruff. Liver, fish oil, eggs, fortified milk, and red, yellow, and orange vegetables are good sources for vitamin A.
Be careful if you take vitamin A supplements. Vitamin A is fat-soluble. Body can store it and it is easy to overdose on vitamin A. Vitamin A overdoses can cause very dry skin and inflamed hair follicles. In some cases, it can cause hair loss. A safe dose of vitamin A is 10,000 IU or 25,000 IU.
Vitamin B-6 is found in protein rich foods, which is excellent because the body needs a sufficient amount of protein to maintain hair growth. Liver, chicken, fish, pork, kidney, and soybeans are good sources of B-6 and are relatively low in fat when they are not fried.
Vitamin B12 is important for healthy hair. Vitamin B12 is responsible for the proper formation of healthy red blood cells.
Vitamin C improves the absorption of iron, so fruits such as oranges, strawberries and lemons should be on your grocery list of foods that prevent hair loss.
Iron plays a key role in manufacturing hemoglobin, the part of the blood that carries oxygen to your body’s organs and tissues.
The body uses silica to help it absorb vitamins and minerals; if you’re not consuming silica, eating your vitamins might not be helping much.
Zinc plays a key role in many of the body’s functions, from cell reproduction to hormonal balance, and all these functions affect hair growth. Perhaps most importantly, zinc manages the glands that attach to your hair follicles.

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