Balanced diet is vital for maintaining good health of body but also for healthy hair. According to nutritionists, who have nutritional deficiencies in their diet they have dried and stringy hair lack in natural diet can lead to gradual thinning of hair. Vitamins, proteins minerals are the common nutritional supplements which are essential and play a major role in healthy hair growth. A diet with low calories, can affect hair. Taking only specific groups of food and eliminating others from diet, can also cause hair loss.

Vitamins for hair growth:

Vitamins are most important part of healthy diet for hair e.g. Vitamin B12 (cobalamin), a water-soluble vitamin helps in the proper functioning of the digestive, skin, hair, eyes, mouth, nervous system and liver. It is available in the food like fish, dairy products, organ meats (the meat found in liver and kidney), eggs, beef, and pork.

Sometimes it can be difficult to achieve the necessary vitamin only from food. In this case, one can take supplementary vitamin for completion of food and health hair promotion. The person can choose a multivitamin that contains all (or as many as possible) of the following:

•    Vitamin A

Vitamin A is available in the beef liver, eggs, mackerel, liver of polar bears and other artic animals. Because excess intakes of Vitamin A can become harmful often resulting in major health hazards including coarse and dry hair. Vitamin A recommended quantity is 7500 mcg RE (25 000 IU) for adults and 3000 mcg RE (10 000 IU) for children

•    Vitamin C

It is an antioxidant required for the healthy growth of hair and skin. This vitamin found in the food like citrus fruits, strawberries, kiwi, cantaloupe, pineapple, tomatoes, green peppers, potatoes and dark green vegetables.

•    Vitamins B-6 and B-12 Vitamin

Vitamins B-6 is very essential for healthy hair. A deficiency of biotin is known to cause hair loss. . Vitamin B12 is an anti-stress vitamin, which improves the condition of the immune system and helps the body to cope up with stress.

•    Amino Acids/Protein

Proteins are important for hair growth and overall healthy functioning of the body. Amino acid is particularly important because it contains sulfur molecules which cross link with each other to produce disulfide bonds. These chemical bonds are gives hair its strength.

Many other Vitamins like Folic Acid, Iron and copper etc are also need for healthy hair growth.

•    Folic Acid
•    Iron
•    Copper

Minerals for hair growth:

For healthy hair growth minerals are the most important diet supplements. Without sufficient quantity of minerals, human body is not able to absorb the benefits of other nutrients like vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

•    Silicon

Silicon an important dietary mineral, builds the connective tissues, like ligaments and tendons. It leads to the growth of hair, skin and nails. Silicon is available in foods like whole grain, breads, cereals, beet, bell pepper, bean and pea.

•    Zinc

Zinc is another beneficial mineral required for the normal growth of the hair teeth, bones, nails and skin. . It builds the connective tissue like ligaments and tendons and takes care of the over all metabolism of the body.  Zinc is present in meat, seafood, and eggs

Foods for hair growth 

There are some foods that should add in daily diet for improving hair health growth:

•    Fruits

These fruits like melons, berries, bananas, oranges, apples and many other fruits can supply proper vitamins and help to reduce hair loss.

•    Vegetables

All vegetables provide additional vitamins for hair growth, the ones that offer the most benefits are those of the green leafy variety, including spinach, cabbage, etc.

•    Dairy

Including milk, eggs and cheese, can increase hair’s overall health by providing it with the vitamin B-12 as well as protein.

•    Lean, healthy meats

Chicken, nuts, fish, and organ meats (such as liver) include in such food. By addition of these in diet, it will provide hair follicles with the vitamins they need for optimal operation and hair growth.

•    Water

At least eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day will help transport the needed nutrients the hair and help to keep hair strands hydrated and strong.

To know the role of neuroendocrine system in obesity it is essential to know what Neuroendocrinology or Neuroendocrine system is.

Neuroendocrinology is mainly a science that studies the links and associations between nervous system and endocrine glands. The study took a new shape when it was first known that the brain, especially hypothalamus control many secretions related to pituitary and other endocrine glands.

For a very long time and even now it is a general concept that weight loss is only possible through deprivation of tasty but fatty and salty diets and with a lot of exercises. It is a right concept and there is no doubt about the certainty of that concept but the adopted ways and procedures to control diet often proved temporary and unhealthy.

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1. Conceptualizing the Liposuction

Liposuction is derived from the word lipoclastic which means the fat replica. It is an aesthetic surgical treatment that eradicates the all kinds of fats from the human body. The operation is to be taken place around the parts of thighs, belly, buttocks, neck, back, and chest figurines etc.These all types of fats are reduced by the use of cannula known as the concave tube. It is further diminished by the use of an aspirator called as a suction apparatus.

Liposuction is not a kind of substitutes that could be done exercising and dieting. It is a cosmetic tool with full of beauty shapes the human body with the noteworthy collaborating Perils. So it is not a weight pounding machine. The fat is eradicated from the body according to its all kinds of features and genes. Usually 10 pound weight would be removed by the use of such model.

By employing such fat removing methodology, the risk factors are also included in various levels. Too much weigh reduction could lead the patient into higher risking factors so as to inform by the doctors and scientists. Moreover this might cause the cavity in the body after the surgery. Therefore the doctors say that it is superlative to be as smart as promising along with a leave of smoking before some months of the operation.

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A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty , Narayana Hrudayalaya ( Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below which is useful for everyone.

Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart ?

Ans: 1. Diet – Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise – Half an hour’s walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar

Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?

Ans: No

Qn: It’s still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?

Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?

Ans: Yes

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The body dysmorphic disorder is a very serious disease which manifests in the plan of perception. This means that people suffering from it have the feeling that they look very bad and this affects their daily activities badly. This perception that they have about themselves is caused by the malfunctioning of the brain, as this is the most affected part of the body in the case of body dysmorphic disorder. Experts consider that the general effects of this disorder are not obvious and they cannot be easily noticed and diagnosed.

Causes:

There is not any clear cause for the body symptomatic disorder; however scientists and researchers have studied the subject and have reached the conclusion that there are some factors causing some effects of body symptomatic disorder. These causes that have been researching upon are biological or psychological and even cultural factors.

The body dysmorphic disorder usually manifests in the case of mature people. Most scientists say that it is mainly a psychological disorder that leads to an obsession about the way they look. There are numerous ways of manifestation of the body dysmorphic disorder regarding mature people and these ways depend on increasingly numerous factors.

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