Foods for faster hair growth
May 28th 2009 11:10
We all know that eating a balanced diet is essential for healthy hair, but there are certain foods that will cause your hair to grow even faster than it would with your everyday balanced diet. Eating foods that are rich in protein, as well as foods that are rich in iron, will not only keep your hair shiny and full of life, but will also allow it to grow at its fastest possible rate.
As hair is essentially made up of protein, it makes sense that a diet that contains lots of protein would be necessary to achieve maximum growth. Protein-rich foods include chicken, fish, cheese and eggs, or if you're a vegan, grains, beans, seeds and nuts. As for foods rich in iron, these include red meat, green leafy vegetables (especially spinach), nuts, eggs, and soy products like tofu and soy milk. The beauty of many of these foods is that their iron and protein contents often overlap - that is, foods that are high in iron will be high in protein, and vice versa.
It's also important to actually EAT these foods, as opposed to merely supplementing them with vitamins. Nutrient absorption from food has been proven many times over to be far more effective than the nutrient absorption from vitamins, so if you don't actually eat the foods, you'll be doing yourself and your hair a disservice. Thankfully the foods that are high in protein and iron are quite diverse, so if you don't like the taste of one thing, you can always replace it with another.
The food that I've personally had the most success with, when it comes to increasing my hair's growth rate, is sushi. Like many women I go through 'food phases' - that is, favouring one type of food heavily for a few weeks or months, before moving onto something else. Since a fabulous sushi restaurant opened up in my neighbourhood a few months ago, I've been eating the stuff practically every day, and the results have been quite extraordinary! Even my boyfriend commented on how long my hair had become, and he's not normally the type to notice such things. Of course, sushi is extremely high in protein - being largely made of rice, seaweed, and raw fish - so this is what would have caused the steep increase in my hair's growth rate.
Remember that the most important element of your diet is that it's a balanced one, but by incorporating a greater proportion of both protein-rich and iron-rich foods, you'll be allowing your tresses to grow as fast as they possibly can. And when it comes to reaching your hair growth goals, the faster you get there, the better!
As hair is essentially made up of protein, it makes sense that a diet that contains lots of protein would be necessary to achieve maximum growth. Protein-rich foods include chicken, fish, cheese and eggs, or if you're a vegan, grains, beans, seeds and nuts. As for foods rich in iron, these include red meat, green leafy vegetables (especially spinach), nuts, eggs, and soy products like tofu and soy milk. The beauty of many of these foods is that their iron and protein contents often overlap - that is, foods that are high in iron will be high in protein, and vice versa.
It's also important to actually EAT these foods, as opposed to merely supplementing them with vitamins. Nutrient absorption from food has been proven many times over to be far more effective than the nutrient absorption from vitamins, so if you don't actually eat the foods, you'll be doing yourself and your hair a disservice. Thankfully the foods that are high in protein and iron are quite diverse, so if you don't like the taste of one thing, you can always replace it with another.
The food that I've personally had the most success with, when it comes to increasing my hair's growth rate, is sushi. Like many women I go through 'food phases' - that is, favouring one type of food heavily for a few weeks or months, before moving onto something else. Since a fabulous sushi restaurant opened up in my neighbourhood a few months ago, I've been eating the stuff practically every day, and the results have been quite extraordinary! Even my boyfriend commented on how long my hair had become, and he's not normally the type to notice such things. Of course, sushi is extremely high in protein - being largely made of rice, seaweed, and raw fish - so this is what would have caused the steep increase in my hair's growth rate.
Remember that the most important element of your diet is that it's a balanced one, but by incorporating a greater proportion of both protein-rich and iron-rich foods, you'll be allowing your tresses to grow as fast as they possibly can. And when it comes to reaching your hair growth goals, the faster you get there, the better!
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Comment by Janet Collins
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Comment by samaritan
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My other son said something funny the other day. He said he doesn't want to eat the crusts on his sandwiches because he doesn't want curly hair. His grandparents have obviously been using that saying, trying to get him to eat the crusts. But it's completely backfired.
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Comment by Journeywoman
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Samaritan, you're very lucky, you'd be the envy of many women wanting to grow their hair very long (like me!) Don't consider cutting out protein and iron for the sake of convenience though as they're essential to the body's overall health.... perhaps just make sure your sons don't ever become huge fans of sushi
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Comment by nitinjethwa
hey just have one question i m...25 year guy..and have started loosing my hair..and i can c my scalp too....i used styling gel lot before but now i have stopped and occasionally use styling wax. Don't like to put hair oil....and more dirking much of water.. tho i stay in this hot city...DUBAI....and my wedding is in the month of December 2009 so really worried ..don't want to look sad..plzzzz suggest me something that...makes my hair grow faster..and look healthy
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MNG, good on you - hopefully by now you're starting to see some growth
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When growing out bangs, the best thing you can do is just let them grow until they're at a length where you can stand losing a cm or two, and only then have them styled. If you continually have them re-shaped, then that annoying growing-out phase just gets extended unnecessarily.
The good thing is that if it's already been a couple of months, it won't be too much longer until you can pin them out of the way. Hope this helps some - been there, done that twice myself, and never again!
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Ultimately though, if you can minimise the stress in your life - either by finding a balance between work and rest, or learning to deal with it better through relaxation techniques, positive thinking and the like - your whole body will thank you for it. I think people really underestimate how damaging too much stress can be on their bodies and how they experience life in general. Hoping your recent stressful period is over for now and that you find a good solution for dealing with it in the future.
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