Thursday, 07 March 2013 06:49

7 Foods that Will Give You Healthy-Looking Hair

Written by  Tony McGinty
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Let's be real, come-hither hair is all we ever want-and all he wants to run his hands through. So, to figure out how to achieve a Victoria's Secret angel-like mane, we asked Kim Snyder, celebrity nutritionist and author of The Beauty Detox Solution, the upcoming The Beauty Detox Foods and founder of Glow Bio smoothie shop in Los Angeles, what exactly we need to eat to score sexy strands. 

1. Pumpkin Seeds 
Pumpkin seeds are one of nature's top hair-building foods and are an excellent source of zinc and vitamin A, which help strengthen your hair. 

They also contain B vitamins, which include biotin, an essential nutrient for strengthening hair, helping to prevent thin and brittle hair, and increasing growth. 

Try throwing them into your salads to work them into your diet! 

2. Carrots 
These veggies have the highest amount of beta-carotene, the precursor for vitamin A, among the common vegetables. Vitamin A is necessary for a shiny, well-moisturized head of hair, as well as promoting a healthy scalp, which is essential for healthy hair growth. 

Snack on raw carrots with dips, or even simple salsa, for hair-building fuel. 

3. Radishes 
Radishes are spicy, savory veggies that you can easily work into your diet by throwing them into salads and snacking on them raw. 

They promote healthy hair because they're high in vitamin C, as well as silicon and sulfur. Together, these elements help build stronger strands. 

4. Nutritional Yeast 
This is the deactivated form of yeast grown on a mixture of molasses and cane sugar. Nutritional yeast is gluten-free and contains the perfect combination of some of your hair's most important fuels: amino acids (protein) and B vitamins. It's also a complete protein with eighteen amino acids that will help fortify the protein in the hair shaft. 

Three tablespoons supplies nine grams of complete protein, so adding it to recipes is an easy way to increase protein content, as well as hair-building nutrients. 

5. Cucumbers 
Cucumbers are loaded with silicon, which leads to strong, healthy, and shiny hair. Silicon also has incredible beautifying properties, including making your hair thick and shiny. 

So, chop some up and toss them into your next salad. 

6. Strawberries 
This fruit is a great snack because it contains fiber, tons of vitamin C, biotin, which is essential for healthy hair growth, and folic acid. Strawberries also contain high levels of skin-rejuvenating antioxidants as well. 

7. Shiitake Mushrooms 
This type of mushroom is high in B vitamins and can easily be incorporated into your everyday salad or stir-fry dishes. 

There are several B-complex vitamins, but the ones these mushrooms contain help you with anti-aging thanks to niacin, which helps your skin retain moisture, and biotin, which helps keep your hair and nails healthy and strong.

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Tony McGinty

Tony McGinty

Tony McGinty was born in the West Park area of Cleveland. A graduate from Olmsted Falls High School in 2001, he was on the bowling team for 2 years. Tony is married to his high school sweetheart, Angela. They currently live in Elyria with our two dogs, Sophie & Kali, and two cats, Peanut and Zeus but life with pets is about to change in a big way as Angela and Tony are expecting their first child November 2nd. It's a girl, no name yet. Tony's been in the business for ten years, notably as the morning show producer for the Mantel in the Morning show on WGAR (where he rose to the rank of "Captain Tony"), a year working in Portland, Maine as the morning show producer/co-host on WTHT and as the evening guy on WHXR. He's a self-confessed "geek, sports obsessed, TV watcher, mountain dew drinker, sarcastic and cynical" guy.
 

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