Diet for hair loss

How can i protect hair loss by foods?? tel me the foods that used to protect hair loss.
(October 19, 2010)

One of the main reasons for unhealthy hair is poor nutrition. By following a nutritious diet for hair, you can ensure that your hair becomes lustrous and beautiful. Here are a few changes you can make to your diet for hair that is shiny and healthy.

• Increase your protein intake. Your hair is made mainly of proteins, and for hair growth it is important that your supply of protein is adequate. Make sure you add more eggs, poultry, whole grains, legumes and soy to your diet for healthy hair.
• Dry hair and hair breakage occurs sometimes due to a deficiency of fatty essential acids.


Include good sources of these essential acids to your diet as they will help strengthen your hair and give it a luster. Essential fatty acids are found in fish such as sardines, tuna, salmon, trout, mackerel and herrings. Try and eat four servings of the fish mentioned in a week. Vegetarians can get their nutrition for hair from nuts, seeds, avocados and olives. Pumpkin seeds and flaxseed oil sprinkled on your cereal in the morning can get you the much required essential fatty acids. 
• Trace mineral silica is important source of nutrition for hair. Silica can help strengthen your hair and prevent breakage. Try and include organic foods in your diet as they are high in silica. Silica rich foods include oats, rice, lettuce, asparagus, parsnips, strawberry, onion, cucumber, cabbage, sunflower seeds, leek, celery, cauliflower and leafy vegetables.
• Ensure that your hair is well hydrated by drinking six to eight glasses of water daily. Your hair will become soft and supple.
• Sometimes a deficiency of vitamin B in your diet can cause your hair to get greasy and oily. To keep away the greasiness from your hair, make sure you eat plenty of nuts, seeds, whole grains, eggs, dairy products, legumes wheat germ, and leafy vegetables (green). By healthy eating, your hair can become healthy and shiny.  
• “How to protect hair fall” is a question that bothers us very often. Well, one way to prevent hair fall is to eat right. Include plenty of foods that are iron rich in your diet. Evidence suggests that soy protein is effective in stimulating growth, so make sure you include soy milk, soy beans, tofu and miso in your diet. Vitamin E can also be effective in preventing hair loss. In some cases hair loss could be due to thyroid dysfunction. Foods that are rich in iodine are helpful in stimulating the thyroid gland. Increasing your intake of iodine-rich foods such as kelp and seafood helps.
• In addition to following a balanced diet for hair make, sure that you regularly exercise as it will facilitate the flow of blood to your scalp which in turn will promote the growth of hair. 
• Hair fall is sometimes caused due to stress. Thus, stress management, avoiding tobacco, and limiting your alcohol intake are essential in order to improve the overall health of your hair; such lifestyle changes play an important role in preventing and treating hair loss. A diet for long hair may require you to increase your intake of certain nutrients in your diet. However, this increase is very slight and will not cause weight gain.

Nutrition for Hair Fall 

Losing hair strand is a common issue among many people and diet is the recent one to be blamed. High fat diet, high proteins from animal origin and high salt diet tend to damage the kidneys which create an acidic blood. This along with vitamin deficiencies is one of the recent leading factors for hair loss.

• Avoid consuming excessive amounts of fat and salt in the diet especially from the animal origin. The proteins and fats in them tend to make the blood acidic which in turn causes hair loss.
• Have a healthy meal including lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole cereals and grains, sprouts and pulses. Fresh water fish, lean cuts of poultry, lean meat, eggs and skimmed milk products should be consumed in moderation. Correct any nutritional deficiencies (if any) as they can also be a cause for hair loss.
• The use of styling products containing excessive amounts of chemicals should be avoided. Keep your hair clean and often use a natural conditioner for less breakage and loss.
• Avoid any kind of stress, be it physical or emotional as hair strands are literally lost when a person is under stress. If hair loss is due to some underlying skin ailment then consult a specialist for the same.