Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Cause hair loss

Do you know that some bad habits can cause excessive hair loss? Here are some bad habits that have been known to cause hair loss in many people.

1. Eating Too Much Processed Food
Foods lose important nutrients and vitamins when they are processed. Also processed foods may contain additives and preservatives that can cause allergic reactions that trigger hair loss. The simple solution to prevent this is to increase your intake of raw food such as fruits and salads and avoid processed food as much as possible.

2. Eating Too Much of Sweets and Sugar
Sugar is notorious for depleting the body of its nutrients and raising the adrenalin levels in the body when it is consumed in large quantities. The higher amounts of adrenalin in the body cause the body to make more androgen which can precipitate androgenic hair loss. If you think you don't eat much sugar, think again. It is estimated that the average American young adult consumes about twenty teaspoons of sugar daily. Cutting back on excessive sugar will not only prevent hair loss but also it is good for your health.

3. Drinking Too Much Soft Drink
This naturally follows from the above because most soft drinks are laden with sugar. Even the normal diet soft drinks contain the equivalent of 10 sugar cubes. Obviously the non diet ones contain much more sugar than this. Cutting down on soft drinks may not only prevent hair loss it is also good for your health.

4. Eating Excessive Amounts of Saturated Fat
Foods that contain saturated fats, when eaten, result in high body DHT levels. This is liable reduce the effectiveness of prescription hair loss treatments. Avoiding foods with saturated fats is also good for your health.

5. Eating Excessive Amounts of salt
Eating too much table salt is not only bad for your health but also it can increase hair loss. If you need supplementation of iodine then you can take salt water fish rather than iodized salt.