In the past few years, the world has and is making a massive transition to greener energy. Plans and legislations have been put in place to push for cleaner energy and a zero-carbon emission environment.

So, why do you think we are going through all of these efforts to achieve a cleaner and greener environment?

Simply because the natural environment needs the best conditions to thrive and blossom, even the earth, as rugged as it seems still needs to be free from poisonous substances. You can then imagine how our bodies react when we fail to treat it with the utmost care, and do not provide the best quality of nutrition for it.

The body needs food and nutrition to develop, but this does not mean we then feed ourselves with just anything. The quality of our nutrition shows in all parts of the body. From the hair on your head to the sole of your feet, you can always tell the difference between someone that eats healthy from another person who does not.

What do locs have to do with diet?

Many people when they hear the word “diet,” their minds wander off to a regulated regimen of food, which has been tailored to a particular purpose. Talking about words like diet coke, weight-loss diet, and bodybuilding diet.

Well, as much as you are not wrong, diet simply means the food and drink a person consumes daily and the mental and physical circumstances connected to eating. Diets can be either healthy or unhealthy.

A healthy diet is a diet that includes all the classes of nutrients in equal and suited proportions, depending on a person’s nutritional needs. This is what you would popularly know as a balanced diet. While an unhealthy diet is a diet that does not do much good for the body. Rather, it does more harm than good. Either immediately or later on.

Therefore, it is safe to say a person’s diet is who they are because the result of your nutritional health would be evident all over your body from the hair on your head to the sole of your feet.

The impact of diet on your hair/locs.

The importance of healthy eating to hair cannot be overstated. As we said earlier, your nutrition is evident in every part of your body. This includes especially your hair and the hair-producing parts of your body.

There is more than one way to think about the impact of diet on the hair in that:

• There are foods, which directly improve hair growth and the health of your hair, by supplying needed nutrients.
• There is also the aspect of the transport. Foods that improve the transport function of the blood, because if the nutrients are available and they cannot get to where they are needed, what would be the point?

Foods that improve hair growth and healthy hair

• Eggs
• Avocado
• Soya beans
• Whole grained oats
• Salmon
• Fatty fish
• Potatoes

Food that improves iron production

Iron is a major part of the blood, and its intake helps in blood formation.

• Spinach
• Fruit salad
• Red Meat
• Peas
• Seafood

Starting a diet

Undoubtedly, it is not enough to know the foods that can help your hair grow, and make your locs healthier. You also need to find a way to incorporate them into your everyday day diet.

We would be sharing some tips on how you can start a diet. A diet tailored to improve your health, and in particular the health of your hair.

• Follow a healthy eating plan
• Seek professional advice
• Make realistic goals
• Take baby steps
• Reward yourself.
• Go easy on yourself.

These tips would help you so you do not get overwhelmed or discouraged as you start your journey.

How to maintain a diet

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new centre of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey.

It is one thing to start something, and a completely different ball game to keep going once you start. Some days seem harder than others might. In those days, you need to recognise the progress you have made so far and look at how far you have come. This should encourage you to keep going.

Additionally, if this is not enough, we advise you have an accountability partner, who can help you through these times.

Where can I find a dietician in the UK?