Summertime is fast approaching and it’s easy to get caught up in the warmth and forget to adequately protect your hair. It’s common knowledge that the sun has the potential to cause skin damage, increase aging and even trigger cancer, but in addition to treating your skin to the protection of SPF lotions, it’s vital to keep your hair from harm too.
Diet is incredibly important to hair growth and health. In fact, a nutritional deficiency will likely show up first in your hair before it is seen anywhere else. This is because hair is a non-essential tissue and so your body will never send energy, vitamins or minerals its way if an essential tissue needs them. What’s more, hair cells are the 2nd fastest growing cells in the body, which makes diet even more important to sustaining growth.
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This is just to confirm – if you weren’t already convinced – that Bad Hair Days are real and affect not only our appearance but also how we feel, work and socialise.
According to a study conducted at Yale University, “bad hair days” are real — the perception of bad hair actually produces negative consequences beyond not feeling good about how one looks. According to the study, directed by Dr. Marianne LaFrance, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Yale University, “bad hair days” affect individuals’ self-esteem increasing self-doubt, intensifying social insecurities, and becoming more self-critical in general. “Interestingly, both women
