Food Types for Healthy Hair

When your hair starts falling off like dry straws, what can you do?

First, it would help to locate the various reasons for hair loss. Studies have revealed that men lose hair for some common reasons, like:

• Improper diet,


• Lack of proper vitamins,


• Genetic factors,


• Excessive stress, anxiety and worries,


• Prolonged illnesses like typhoid, anemia, dysentery, jaundice etc,


• Poor blood circulation, and


• Unclean scalps.

1. Your scalp needs nutrition. So get plenty of fluids like buttermilk, lime juice and coconut water. Drink at least 8-10 glasses of water every day!


2. One bowl of sprouted pulses for would be great.


3. Proteins. Eat chicken and egg each day.


4. Reduce you daily intake of tea and coffee.


5. When you are washing hair, use a teaspoon of lime juice for the last rinse. That make your hair lustrous while protecting it from dandruff.


6. You are never too old for milk. Drink two glasses of skimmed milk for maximum benefits.


7. Apply a paste of methi seeds on your scalp for half an hour once every week, and drink methi water on empty stomachs.


8. Remember how the age old sadhus survived on fruits? No wonder that they had such long hair! Eat at least 2 or 3 fruits every day like strawberries, bananas, apples, mangoes, chikoos, and grapes.


9. Go green- eat a lot of vegetables, munch away on that iron laden spinach.


10. It is better to have more faith in white meat. Fish, chicken and egg can do wonders for your hair! Try to stay away from red meat.