When days go warmer and warmer, many people starts to keep a diet inspired by the idea what they will look good in their newly bought spring clothes and will look and feel lighter before summer really comes. However, few people will notice that we can ruin their hair when they lose weight. So yes, the changes of our diet will surely affect our fragile hair. For example, a spectral analysis of the hair can accurately determine what has been our menu according to the presence or absence of essential minerals.
If you have kept a diet for a long time and you should change it to another for some reason, you really have to avoid rushing it to clam down. The consequences for the hair are seen only after 3-4 months since from the stopping of the growth of the hair to its falling off from the follicle pass an average of 100 days. The decrease of your diet and the falling of your hair always go as their own schedule. Does this mean that we have to choose between beautiful hair and slender body? Absolutely not. You just need to design a proper diet, and at the same time to care more intensively for your hair.
Let’s take a look at the consequences of the hair due to different diets.
The Vegetarian menu often leads to a lack of proteins and iron. The most important amino acid for hair is the cysteine, as it is an integral part of the hair keratin. It can be found in meat, eggs, milk and oily fish–all foods that are taboo in the strict vegetarian diet. So if you mind your hair much, you’d better give up the extremes and at least eat dairy products and eggs.
The diet without seafood, eggs and nuts often leads to a deficiency of the trace element copper. The result is a loss of elasticity and jutting, difficult to manage hair. And if in your menu prevail the dairy products you will notice that your hair grows slower. The reason is in the excessive amounts of calcium, which blocks the absorption of the required zinc. But the greatest danger lies in the “ultra diets” that not only stop the growth of hair, but even the menstrual cycle. The stress that they cause to the hair can be compared with a large loss of blood, poisoning, or prolonged fever. But as long as these conditions continue maximum 2-3 days, then the execution of the diet could be dragged for weeks or months.
So how to properly keep a diet? A diet with the right amount of nutrients that healthy hair needs is very important. This is the minimum living that will give your hair the necessary substances:
Daily – olive or sunflower oil (1 tbsp), nuts (20g), fresh vegetables (200g), fresh / dried fruit (100/20g), cheese or cottage cheese (100g) bread or pasta (100g)
Through a day – oatmeal or buckwheat (half a cup), 1 egg.
Weekly – meat (500g), chicken, pork or beef liver (200g), fish (500g), beans, peas or lentils (200g, cooked)
