Food and Hair.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1032, 11 December 1891, Page 4

Food and Hair.

The medical papers have been devoting some attention to the influence food has on hair. A good many of us study food from a digestive point of view only, but if the theories recently started have any basis of truth we shall begin to think whether this, that, or the other, besides agreeing with us, will be likely to injure our hair. It is sail that the falling out of the hair after influenza is caused not only by that most objectionable of complaints, but also by the taking of milk in large quantities, which was a favourite remedy

for influenza, but has a bad effect on the hair. Iron is very good, so that those whom it suits can bscongratulated that their medicine serves a double purpose—-that of tonic and hair-restorer. A long course of oatmeal and brown bread is also said to be good. This being the staple diet of one branch of vegetarians, it would be interesting to know whether they have particularly luxuriant heads of hair. Cold baths with salt thrown in are also good, because tha shock flushes the capillaries of the hair, thus sending a supply of blocd to the roots to nourish them.