  How Diet Affects Your Hair  Updated: 11/01/2011 8:38 pm
What's one of the best-kept secrets for healthy hair?  Is it the
latest exotic potion from Europe? An exclusive Hollywood salon
conditioner?  You might be surprised to learn that it's a
balanced diet! Experts agree that a healthy diet with the right
mix of protein, iron, and other nutrients can help improve the
health, look, and feel of your hair.  "To a doctor," says Amy
McMichael, MD, "healthy hair is hair that's growing
appropriately out of every follicle, not easily broken, and
connected to a healthy scalp. To a patient, it's hair that's as
long and full as you'd like it to be. It's bouncy, shiny, and
manageable." McMichael is the director of the Hair Disorder
Clinic at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C. She
tells WebMD that a balanced diet can give your hair all the
nutrients it needs to satisfy both definitions for healthy hair.
Healthy Hair: Protein Is Important  Your hair needs the same
well-rounded diet that provides all the r