Slimming Diets and Grey Hair

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

Slimming Diets and Grey Hair

IT is impossible to live on slender diets which many women follow in an effort to become unnaturally slim and at the same time to be the possessor of beautiful hair. The relation between premature greyness and the craze for slimming is interesting. One well-known trichologist has said that where this is due to local conditions, it is often associated with a lack of fatty deposits in the subcutaneous layer of the dermis. When slimming is carried to excess, there is therefore probably a relation between early greyness and an insufficiency of carbohydrates and fats. But, assuming that the diet is properly balanced and adequate nutrition assured, it is essential that this reaches the tiny capillaries which supply each hair root. These are the last to be reached by the bloodstream. Ihey are like the little veins in a leaf to which tlbe sap must penetrate by way of trunk, boughs and twigs. The restless activities of childhood account for its bripht hair as well as its rosy cheeks. But later in life these energies are normally slowed down, and it is then that help must be given to the scalp.