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HEALTH HAIR

HEALTHY HAIR from the INSIDE AND OUT

It's not just what's in your powder room that determines your 'do. What's in your kitchen matters, too. So stock your kitchen with these foods for healthy hair

 
GINA WAY

If you're like most of us, you blame yourself when bad-hair days stretch into bad-hair months. And let's face it: Over the years, you've pulled it, colored it, fried it, brushed it, teased it, greased it, curled it, moussed it, and mussed it. And nothing's helped. So here's a tip: Lose that avocado and raw egg goop you just mixed up and toss the hot oil. At the most basic level, your hair's sheen, bounce, and fullness aren't about how much you've manhandled it. Healthy hair depends on your changing hormones, the pills you pop, and the foods you eat (or don't). "Hair is a barometer of your overall health," says David H. Kingsley, Ph.D., a hair and scalp expert of the British Science Corporation in New York City

It's not just what's in your powder room that determines you 'do. What's in your kitchen matters, too. So stock your kitchen with these foods for healthy hair

Okay, great. Now factor this in: Your hair is dead. As dirt. The 100,000 strands you twirled into that adorable little rhinestone clip this morning are, in fact, lifeless protein fibers. The living parts are the follicles, tiny hair-growing factories under your scalp. They're nourished mainly by the protein in your diet, and by carbohydrates like whole grains (they provide energy); essential fatty acids from fish, nuts, and soy (they hydrate follicles); and vitamins B6, B12, and biotin, found in eggs, salmon, bananas, and spinach (they help strengthen your hair's outer layer, called the cuticle). "Iron is also essential because it stimulates hair turnover and replenishment," says Neil Sadick, M.D., a New Yorkbased dermatologist.As crucial as your hair is to you, to your body it's nonessential tissue. Keep that in mind if you're ever tempted to embark on an I-wanna-look-like-Nicole-Richie diet. When food is scarce, your body goes into starvation mode, sending nutrients to key organs like your heart and brain — and skipping your hungry follicles. That's why chronic dieters often have lank tresses.

Take care of yourself to get the celebrity hair look
So fine — munch a few nuts, some salmon, half a banana and you're Garnier's next Heather Graham. If only. How your hair looks today has nothing to do with what you ate yesterday — or even over the past few weeks. Hair grows about half an inch per month. So if your locks are shoulder length, your longest strands are up to 2 years old. If you start mainlining fatty acids and B12 right now, your hair should begin to look better in another 3 to 6 months — so open up and chow down.

But what if you eat like a yoga teacher and your hair still looks like the bad end of a wire brush? Stress or illness may be to blame — or, more specifically, the way stress and illness affect your hormones. "Chronic stress or a traumatic event affects the adrenal glands, which produce male hormones that can lead to temporary hair loss in women," Dr. Sadick says. A serious illness like pneumonia, or even general anesthesia, can also stress the body, boosting male hormones in the same way. "It's a shock to the system," Dr. Sadick explains, "and can cause follicles to go into a resting phase." Thankfully, when you recover, so does your hair.

Here's how the hair and hormone thing stacks up: Male hormones are bad; female hormones are good. The most obvious example is pregnancy. High levels of the female hormones progesterone and estrogen kick in while you're carrying your baby and create an unusually thick, healthy mane. Those hormones drop off after you drop the kid — and a frightening amount of hair may too, 1 to 3 months later. (Ninety to 100 percent of it will grow back, though it generally takes a few months.)

Of course, birth control pills also contain progesterone and estrogen, so you'd think they'd be great for your locks. But they can actually cause thinning in some women. "The progesterone component can break down into a male-like hormone in the body," Dr. Sadick explains. So if your hair seems limper since you started the Pill, ask your doc about switching to one with a low progesterone dose like Yasmin. Or consider a nonhormonal form of birth control, such as an IUD.

Another possible culprit may be a medical problem that has upset your hormone levels, like an underactive thyroid or polycystic ovarian syndrome. If you're unusually tired and gaining weight (symptoms of an underactive thyroid), or bloated with infrequent periods (symptoms of polycystic ovarian syndrome), see your doctor. She'll order blood tests, and if your hormone levels are out of whack, she'll treat you with medication. Your hair will rebound once you get the problem under control.Certain drugs, such as antidepressants and beta-blockers for high blood pressure, can also aggravate hair thinning, although no one knows why. "These medications may disrupt the protein-making mechanisms that affect the hair cycle," Dr. Kingsley says. "But like other triggers, they may affect one person and not another." So don't flush your pills, but do ask your doc about switching meds.

Your best cure may wind up being a really good stylist — a fallback strategy every girl needs front and center in her Rolodex. Because sometimes the reason your hair looks like a squirrel's nest really is due to all those torturous treatments (two words, girls: flat iron). Check for split ends and brittleness — a surefire sign of damage. In that case, toss your hair dryer and learn to love the texture and color you were born with.Not ready to cut the cord? Then blow-dry on medium and never use a hot iron on damp hair — "it boils water into the shaft," causing the cuticle to burst, says New York hairstylist Nunzio Saviano. More tress-friendly tips: Coat with a leave-in conditioner before hitting the pool or beach. Always condition after coloring to replenish moisture, don't chemically straighten bleached hair (it will break), and touch up highlights only every 3 to 4 months.

TIPS FOR BEACH - READY BODY

Chrissy Teigen's tips for a beach-ready body

While you're committing to a pre-summer regimen filled with grilled chicken lunches and hours at the gym think about this: Supermodels also have some prep work to do before putting on a bikini. So says gorgeous Chrissy Teigen, the Thai-Norwegian stunner who has appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue since 2010. Chrissy loves to eat -- which is one of the reasons why we love her -- and before a shoot forces herself to go hard with Pilates and a low-carb diet. We spoke to Teigen, who is engaged to singer John Legend, about her routine, how we can all feel confident while wearing relatively little, and her new swimwear line with diNeila Brazil. Watch this episode to see her suits which are made to flatter girls with curves and learn a surprising fact about Chrissy that we still can't believe!

The girl loves food and even has a blog to prove it. So Delushious.com boasts the tagline "personal random ramblings from a girl who loves bacon and can't be fat." An enthusiastic chef with a penchant for high-calorie fare, Chrissy admits she has to make major changes to her diet to get ready for prancing around in a teeny bikini. About two months before a big shoot, she’ll go low-carb and spend a ton of time working with her favorite Pilates instructor in New York City. Prepping her skin is also a big part -- moisturizing and shaving. She uses Gillette’s Venus & Olay razor, with five blades and a skin-conditioning moisture bar, which happens to be the first official razor of the SI Swimsuit Issue.

A big part of feeling confident on the beach is wearing a suit that flatters your shape. That was the motivation behind Chrissy’s tropical-print line. The well-constructed pieces provide support and firm you up in all the right places. There’s the classic triangle top, plus halter tops and bra tops and sexy, retro high-waisted bottoms with crisscross ties on the side.

Check out the collection at dineila.com and check out Chrissy’s latest in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue on newsstands now.

DAD PUTS A TODDLER IN WASHING MACHINE

Worst Parent of the Week: Dad Puts Toddler in Washing Machine and Turns it On

By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

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By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine | Parenting

There's no way to know what the parents were thinking. Maybe they were trying to scare their kid into good behavior. Maybe they were just goofing around. Maybe they thought it would be funny -- there's a large sign hanging above the machines, saying "Junior Wash: $2.95." Whatever it was, it could have easily ended in tragedy.

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In the silent footage from the laundromat's security camera, the dad scoops up the diaper-clad toddler, shoves him head first into the front-loading washer, and shuts the door. He and the mom seem amused at first, but panic quickly sets in when they realize that they can't get the washer door open. It's locked automatically, and the tot is trapped inside as the washer starts to run. (Warning: The video is disturbing).



The toddler tumbles helplessly, trapped in the machine, water pouring in, while the parents struggle with the locked door and then search for help. Finally, an attendant runs over and disables the machine. It takes a few more seconds to get the door open and the child out.

There have been several recent reports about kids dying after getting trapped in a washing machine -- in March, 18-month-old Ollie Hebb drowned in a washing machine accident, and a 3-year-old was killed in France after his father put him in one and turned it on to punish him. The child in this video suffered a few bumps and bruises and is fine, according to the person who posted the clip -- at least, as fine as one can be living with parents who think it's funny to stick kids in washing machines. No word on whether the parents will be investigated for, well, anything.

THE FIRST GUY PRESIDENT

Sullivan wrote that Obama's support of gay marriage brought him to tears:

I do not know how orchestrated this was; and I do not know how calculated it is. What I know is that, absorbing the news, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to write, and, like many Dish readers, there are tears in my eyes.

So let me simply say: I think of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their president on their side. I think of Maurice Sendak, who just died, whose decades-long relationship was never given the respect it deserved. I think of the centuries and decades in which gay people found it impossible to believe that marriage and inclusion in their own families was possible for them, so crushed were they by the weight of social and religious pressure. I think of all those in the plague years shut out of hospital rooms, thrown out of apartments, written out of wills, treated like human garbage because they loved another human being. I think of Frank Kameny. I think of the gay parents who now feel their president is behind their sacrifices and their love for their children.

The interview changes no laws; it has no tangible effect. But it reaffirms for me the integrity of this man we are immensely lucky to have in the White House. Obama's journey on this has been like that of many other Americans, when faced with the actual reality of gay lives and gay relationships. Yes, there was politics in a lot of it. But not all of it. I was in the room long before the 2008 primaries when Obama spoke to the mother of a gay son about marriage equality. He said he was for equality, but not marriage. Five years later, he sees--as we all see--that you cannot have one without the other. But even then, you knew he saw that woman's son as his equal as a citizen. It was a moment--way off the record at the time--that clinched my support for him.

Today Obama did more than make a logical step. He let go of fear. He is clearly prepared to let the political chips fall as they may. That's why we elected him.

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