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Here's the best excuse for chowing down: It can help you grow long, luxurious locks. Although the hair that grows from your head is dead (which is why it doesn’t hurt when you get a haircut), the living part of the hair — the hair follicle — is very much alive, and it reflects your overall health. If you’re not eating a healthy, balanced diet, your body will hoard every possible nutrient and direct it toward making the important stuff, like muscles, bones, and other tissues. Hair, which is nonessential, is deprived of the scarce nutrients, so it becomes thin, sparse, and lifeless.

If you go on a crash diet or otherwise severely limit your calories, not only will your hair get thinner, but it may actually fall out in clumps — a condition called telogen effluvium. Over time, you can even develop ... Read more »

Long hair can be a lot of work — here are easy solutions for keeping your hair strong and shiny.

Does your hair get tangled or matted from teasing and hair spray?Try the Tangle Teezer, a de-tangling hairbrush that glides through wet or dry hair without tugging or breaking fragile strands. A friend brought one back for me from London, and I’m hooked. It’s not glamorous looking (it looks like a plastic horse brush), but it really works, even on matted extensions.

Does your hair hang limply?It might be time for a trim. Ask your stylist for shorter layers, which will give you more volume than long layers. If you have thick hair, it might need to be thinned out, so your stylist may use either thinning shears or scissors, in a technique called channeling.

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