Nutrition Basics
Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health, and disease of an organism. The exact composition of a healthy diet varies depending on the indivi
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Nutrition for Healthy Hair
Ralph M. Trüeb
Nutrition for Healthy Hair Guide to Understanding and Proper Practice
Ralph M. Trüeb Center for Dermatology and Hair Diseases Professor Trüeb Wallisellen Switzerland
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Preface
Courtesy of Dr. Harry P. Michaelides, DDS, Chicago, IL, USA Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.—Hippocrates (460–370 BC)
“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat” is a proverb originally attributed to the classical Greek Athenian philosopher Socrates and later reiterated by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. Yet another Ancient Greek, Hippocrates, was among the first to establish the role of diet in health and disease. He proposed lifestyle modifications, including dietary factors, to prevent or treat diseases, and is therefore often quoted with “Let food be thy medicine.” And yet, there is hardly another field with so much prejudice, misconception, and debate as diet and health, let alone hair health. In his publication “How Doctors Think,” Jerome Groopman from Harvard Medical School focuses on the thinking errors in medicine, and among them ultimately states that “Aside from relatively common dietary deficiencies—lack of v
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vitamin B12 causing pernicious anemia, or insufficient vitamin C giving rise to scurvy—little is known about the effects of nutrition on many bodily functions.” The fact is that quantity and quality of hair are closely related to the nutritional state of an individual. Normal supply, uptake, and transport of proteins, calories,
