Thursday, January 13, 2011

Why do young people take drugs?


 
Enjoyment
Despite all the concerns about illicit drug use and the attendant lifestyle by young people, it is probably still the case that the lives of most young people are centred on school, home and employment and that most drug use is restricted to the use of tobacco and alcohol They may adopt the demeanour, fashion and slang of a particular subculture including the occasional or experimental use of illegal drugs without necessarily adopting the lifestyle.
Even so, the evidence of drug use within youth culture suggests that the experience of substances is often pleasurable rather than negative and damaging. So probably the main reason why young take drugs is that they enjoy them. 
 
Environment
Many young people live in communities which suffer from multiple deprivation, with high unemployment, low quality housing where the surrounding infra-structure of local services is fractured and poorly resourced. In such communities drug supply and use often thrive as an alternative economy often controlled by powerful criminal groups. As well as any use that might be associated with the stress and boredom of living in such communities, young people with poor job prospects recognise the financial advantages and the status achievable through the business of small scale supply of drugs.
However, drug use is certainly not restricted to areas of urban deprivation. As the press stories of expulsions from private schools and drug use in rural areas show, illicit drug use is an aspect of our society from top to bottom and in all regions. 


 
Curiosity
Most young people are naturally curious and want to experiment with different experiences. For some, drugs are a good conversation point, they are interesting to talk about and fascinate everyone.
The defence mechanism
Some young people will use drugs specifically to ease the trauma and pain of unsatisfactory relationships and the physical and emotional abuse arising from unhappy home lives. Such young people will often come to the attention of the school. If these problems can be addressed, then if drugs are involved they can become less of a problem. 
 
Natural rebellion
Whether or not part of any particular subset of youth culture, young people like to be exclusive, own something that is personal to themselves and consciously or unconsciously drug use may act as a means of defiance to provoke adults into a reaction. 
 
Promotion and availability
There is considerable pressure to use legal substances alcohol and pain- relieving drugs are regularly advertised on television. The advertising of tobacco products is now banned on television, but recent research from Strathclyde University published by the Cancer Research Campaign concluded that cigarette advertising does encourage young people to start smoking and reinforces the habit among existing smokers.
Despite legislation, children and teenagers have no problems obtaining alcohol and tobacco from any number of retail outlets; breweries refurbish pubs with young people in mind, bringing in music, games, more sophisticated decor and so on while the general acceptance of these drugs is maintained through sports sponsorship, promotions and other marketing strategies.Obviously, the illicit market is more discreet, but those determined to experiment appear to have little trouble obtaining drugs. 
 
Cost
Value for money is often a factor as to which drug to use. Cannabis sufficient for a few joints would cost about £5, while an LSD trip would be around £2.50. In terms of how long the effects last, this compares very favourably with an average price for a pint of lager of around £1.80. By the same token, ecstasy of highly variable quality is still selling for up to £15 a tablet and many drug users have been voting with their wallet and turning to cheaper drugs such as LSD and amphetamine. 


 

“Why Young People Join the Military”.........!!!!!



In today’s political climate, with two wars being fought with no end in sight, it can be difficult for some people to understand why young folks enlist in our military.
The conservative claim that most youth enlist due to patriotism and the desire to “serve one’s country” is misleading. The Pentagon’s own surveys show that something vague and abstract called “duty to country” motivates only a portion of enlistees.
The vast majority of young people wind up in the military for different reasons, ranging from economic pressure to the desire to escape a dead-end situation at home to the promise of citizenship.
Over all, disenfranchisement may be one of the most accurate words for why some youth enlist.
When mandatory military service ended in 1973, the volunteer military was born. By the early 1980s, the term “poverty draft” had gained currency to connote the belief that the enlisted ranks of the military were made up of young people with limited economic opportunities.
Today, military recruiters react angrily to the term “poverty draft.” They parse terms in order to argue that “the poor” are not good recruiting material because they lack the necessary education. Any inference that those currently serving do so because they have few other options is met with a sharp rebuke, as Sen. John Kerry learned last November when he seemed to tell a group of college students they could either work hard in school or “get stuck in Iraq.”
President Bush led the bipartisan charge against Kerry: “The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots — and Sen. Kerry owes them an apology.”


In reality, Kerry’s “botched joke” — Kerry said he was talking about President Bush and not the troops — contained a kernel of truth. It is not so much that one either studies hard or winds up in Iraq but rather that many U.S. troops enlist because access to higher education is closed off to them. Although they may be “plenty smart,” financial hardship drives many to view the military’s promise of money for college as their only hope to study beyond high school.
Recruiters may not explicitly target “the poor,” but there is mounting evidence that they target those whose career options are severely limited. According to a 2007 Associated Press analysis, “nearly three-fourths of [U.S. troops] killed in Iraq came from towns where the per capita income was below the national average. More than half came from towns where the percentage of people living in poverty topped the national average.”
It perhaps should come as no surprise that the Army GED Plus Enlistment Program, in which applicants without high school diplomas are allowed to enlist while they complete a high school equivalency certificate, is focused on inner-city areas.
When working-class youth make it to their local community college, they often encounter military recruiters working hard to discourage them. “You’re not going anywhere here,” recruiters say. “This place is a dead end. I can offer you more.” Pentagon-sponsored studies — such as the RAND Corporation’s “Recruiting Youth in the College Market: Current Practices and Future Policy Options” — speak openly about college as the recruiter’s number one competitor for the youth market.

Add in race as a supplemental factor for how class determines the propensity to enlist and you begin to understand why communities of color believe military recruiters disproportionately target their children. Recruiters swear they don’t target by race. But the millions of Pentagon dollars spent on special recruiting campaigns for Latino and African-American youth contradicts their claim.
According to an Army Web site, the goal of the “Hispanic H2 Tour” was to “Build confidence, trust, and preference of the Army within the Hispanic community.” The “Takin’ it to the Streets Tour” was designed to accelerate recruitment in the African-American community where recruiters are particularly hard-pressed and faced with declining interest in the military as a career. In short, the nexus between class, race, and the “volunteer armed forces” is an unavoidable fact.
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Not all recruits, of course, are driven by financial need. In working-class communities of every color, there are often long-standing traditions of military service and links between service and privileged forms of masculinity. For communities often marked as “foreign,” such as Latinos and Asians, there is pressure to serve in order to prove that one is “American.” For recent immigrants, there is the lure of gaining legal resident status or citizenship.
Economic pressure, however, is an undeniable motivation — yet to assert that fact in public often leads to confrontations with conservatives who ask, “How dare you question our troops’ patriotism?”
But any simplistic understanding of “patriotism” does not begin to capture the myriad of subjective motivations that often coexist alongside economic motives. Altruism — or as youth often put it, “I want to make a difference” — is also a major reason a significant number of people enlist.
It is a terrible irony that contemporary American society provides working-class youth with few other outlets besides the military for their desire for agency, personal empowerment, and social commitment. It is especially tragic whenever U.S. foreign policy turns away from national defense and back toward the imperial tradition of military adventurism, as it did in Vietnam and Iraq.
Within a worldview of pre-emptive war and wars of choice, the altruism and good intentions of young people become one more sentiment to be manipulated and exploited in order to further the aims of a small group of policymakers.
In this scenario, the desire to “make a difference,” once inserted into the military apparatus, means young Americans may have to kill innocent people or become brutalized by the realities of combat.
Take the tragic example of Sgt. Paul Cortez, who graduated in 2000 from Central High School in the working-class town of Barstow, Calif., joined the Army, and was sent to Iraq. On March 12, 2006, he participated in the gang rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her and her entire family.
When asked about Cortez, a classmate said: “He would never do something like that. He would never hurt a female. He would never hit one or even raise his hand to one. Fighting for his country is one thing, but not when it comes to raping and murdering. That’s not him.”

Let us accept the claim that “that’s not him.” Nevertheless, because of a series of unspeakable and unpardonable events within the context of an illegal and immoral war, “that” is what he became. On February 21, 2007, Cortez pled guilty to the rape and four counts of felony murder. He was convicted a few days later, sentenced to life in prison and a lifetime in his own personal hell.
As ex-Marine Martin Smith wrote recently in Counterpunch: “It speaks volumes that in order for young working-class men and women to gain self-confidence or self-worth, they seek to join an institution that trains them how to destroy, maim, and kill. The desire to become a Marine — as a journey to one’s manhood or as a path to self-improvement — is a stinging indictment of the pathology of our class-ridden world.”
Like a large mammal insensitive to its offspring’s needs and whereabouts, America is rolling over on the aspirations of its children and crushing them in the process.
Many U.S. troops crack under the pressure of combat and its aftershocks. At least one in eight of all Iraq veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress, according to a 2004 Pentagon study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Matthew J. Friedman, executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, stated that the study’s results were far too conservative. As the war in Iraq drags on, many more young veterans will experience some debilitating form of PTSD.
Others are opting for conscientious objector (CO) status. Hundreds of troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have either begun or completed the CO process. According to Bill Galvin of the Center on Conscience and War: “For some people, the training gets to them. From stabbing dummies, to shouting ‘Kill!’ or ‘Blood makes the grass grow!’ But in the last year or two, we’ve been hearing people talking about their experiences in the war, or talking about the children they’ve witnessed being killed, or the civilians that were murdered. Some of them are wrestling with the guilt about people they may have killed or families they may have ruined.”
Most people are not predisposed to kill, and so it should concern us that our children are being increasingly militarized in their schools and the culture as a whole. To take only one example: What does it mean for a society to put young people from ages 8 to 18 in military uniforms and call it “leadership training”? This is precisely what each of the more than 300 units of the Young Marines program is doing at a neighborhood school near you.
From rural America to the urban cores of deindustrialized cities, a military caste system is slowly taking shape. If recent history is any indication, our politicians will use our military less for national defense than for adventures premised on control of resources, strategic advantage, and ideological fantasies. As in the final decades of every declining empire, it’s likely that many wars loom in our future.
Exactly who will have to fight and die in those wars will be determined by economic class. In order to accomplish their goals, the recruiters and politicians will exploit the hopes and dreams of mostly well-intentioned youth from humble origins who are looking for a way to contribute to a society that has lost its moral compass. As they did in Vietnam and again in Iraq, young women and men will serve their country. But how well will their country have served them?
Jorge Mariscal is the grandson of Mexican immigrants and the son of a U.S. Marine who fought in World War II. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego.


Alcohol and young people.........!!!


 

Why do young people drink alcohol?

Young people try alcohol for many reasons.
  • They might be curious, or want to be one of the group.
  • Some young people drink because it makes them feel older, or because it gives them a certain image among friends.
  • Some people drink when they go to parties and nightclubs to enjoy themselves more. The alcohol might make them feel more relaxed.
  • Some people use alcohol to help them sleep or to forget things.
  • Some people need to drink every day just to get through the day because they are dependent on alcohol.

 

Alcohol guidelines

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) released guidelines about drinking alcohol when under 18 years in 2009:
'...children under 15 years of age are at the greatest risk of harm from drinking and that for this group, not drinking alcohol is especially important.'
'For young people aged 15-17 years, the safest option is to delay the initiation of drinking for as long as possible.'
NHMRC 'Australian Guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol' February 2009 Guidelines


When can young people drink alcohol?

The information that follows is a guide to the law in South Australia. If you live elsewhere, check your local laws. There are references below for more information about the laws in South Australia.
If you are under 18:
  • You will be guilty of an offence if you obtain or drink alcohol in licensed premises, a restaurant, café or shop, an amusement parlour or amusement arcade, a public place that is being used for an organised event, or public transport.
  • You cannot enter or remain on premises where a late night permit or an entertainment venue licence is in place, or licensed areas which are declared out of bounds to minors.
  • If you drink, are sold or are given liquor on licensed premises, you, the licensee, the person supervising and managing the premises, and the person who supplied you the liquor will each be guilty of an offence. You could be fined.
  • If you consume or possess liquor in a public place, you will be guilty of an offence unless you are accompanied by your parent, guardian or spouse.
There is no law which makes it an offence for a person under 18 to drink alcohol in a private home. If there is a party in a private house, it is not an offence to supply children under 18 with alcohol, but a responsible adult should serve it to minimise the risk of over-consumption.
Alcohol cannot be supplied if there is an entrance charge to the party or the alcohol is being sold to minors.

Is it ever good for your health?

  • Small amounts of alcohol may reduce the risk of heart and circulation problems, and may help avoid gallstones.
  • However, drinking too much alcohol causes a great deal of harm to your body, and your social life.

Dangerous drinking

Small amounts of alcohol do not harm most people, but many young people drink in unsafe ways, or do things which could be dangerous while alcohol is affecting their judgement and skills.
Many young people drink to get drunk (binge drinking) at least once a month, and some do this much more often.
  • Binge drinking can cause alcohol poisoning, which can cause death.
  • Young people, especially young women, are at high risk of abuse, including rape, when they are drunk.
  • Young people who are drunk can do very dangerous things, such as driving, swimming (most people over the age of 12 who drown are drunk), and getting involved in fights.
    • Over 3,300 14-17 year olds were hospitalised for alcohol related injury and disease in 1999/2000 in Australia.
    • During the ten years from 1993 to 2002, an estimated 501 under-aged drinkers died from injury or disease related to risky/high risk alcohol drinking in Australia.
  • Alcoholic sodas and pre-mix drinks are popular with young people but they can have a lot more alcohol in them than you might think. Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia has published a fact sheet about this 'Alcoholic sodas and pre-mix drinks'
    http://www.dassa.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/Sodas.pdf

Spiking drinks

It might seem like 'just fun', but many young people have gotten into serious trouble when someone has put something into their drink without their knowledge. Sometimes alcohol is added to drinks that appear to be free of alcohol. Sometimes other drugs are added.
The person whose drink is 'spiked' could become very sick, or try to do something that is dangerous (like driving while affected by the alcohol or drug).
They could even be sexually assaulted. This is sometimes called 'date rape'.

Reasons Why Young People Join Gangs......!!!!!!



Children and teens globally are known to be fond of joining gangs. Normally, it does not take a lot of convincing for them to consider entering a group especially when they know that by doing so, they will gain popularity and they can get to do something different.
Common Reasons Why Children Join Gangs
Joining a gang or entering a certain group is common for young children and teens. Some find it a necessity in order to gain recognition and fame whether in school or in other circles that they belong to. Others find joining a group "cool" while some feel the need to belong, especially those who lack attention or lack close human interaction with family members.

The young generation often craves for attention simply because they want to feel that what they do is given importance. These kids are still in their formative years and are still trying to search for their true identities. Sometimes, joining a gang gives them a chance to find out more about themselves because they are given an opportunity to showcase what they can do. For other teens, joining a gang is a form of rebellion. In other cases, some enter a gang because they have nothing else to do, are forced by other kids, or simply out of curiosity.
When Joining a Gang Becomes Destructive
It is relatively okay for parents to allow their kids to join a certain group as long as there is nothing destructive about it. When the group that children are into encourages them and brings out the best in them, then it is perfectly healthy for them to stay with that group.

The only time that parents need to worry is when they notice that the gang that their kids are into is beginning to have a negative influence on them. When the children start to show a change in their behavior, become indifferent, and begin to break rules, this is a sign that parents or family members should start to intervene.
Joining a gang is sometimes too much to handle for teens with unstable characters. Vices such as smoking, drinking, and taking drugs can later be developed if the gang that the kids get into spells BAD NEWS.
When children and teens are well-taken care of and feel loved, there is less chance for them to feel the need to look for a particular group that will accept them. The young generation of today needs all the support and understanding that they can get from the people who are important to them so that they will no longer find a need to seek the company of others.

6 Tips for Organizing Your Job Search

People tend to have mixed feelings about looking for a new job. The possibility of something new is exciting, but the act of interviewing makes people anxious. As a result, many job seekers feel overwhelmed, sometimes to the point of abandoning the job search altogether. Rarely does someone take the time to break down and analyze each phase of a job search. A little reflection and organization of the search process can noticeably improve its effectiveness in a few important ways:

Organization breeds success. Logic tells us that spending time and energy in the right areas will likely produce results and job offers more quickly than if you hadn’t. Being disorganized can cause you to forget basic things like whom you should be contacting and when. Taking control of your job search allows you to see how you are spending your time and energy and evaluate whether you are getting the most out of your efforts.

You spend time more efficiently. If you're organized you will be able to prioritize your activities for the best results. This tactic helps cut down on time wasters like looking for a recruiter’s or hiring manager’s contact information, or losing the address to your interview.

Being organized increases confidence. A job search can make you feel out of control, but being organized is a great way to feel more secure and prepared. No one is going to believe in you more than you believe in yourself. Feeling prepared will improve your performance in an interview and in your interactions with a potential employer.

Now that we understand the reasons to be organized, here are six key tactics to implement on your job search.

- Organize your contacts. Start your search by creating a spreadsheet or contact list to keep track of all the people you meet. Include names, employers, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, who introduced you or where you met, and a section for notes about your conversations. This will help you evaluate if you are reaching the right type, as well as the right number, of people. Remember that at least 40 percent of your job search should focus on networking.

- Identify job sources. Finding the right opportunities for you to pursue begins with finding quality resources for job opportunities. These resources can come from a number of different places, including online job boards, industry associations, professional groups and social networking sites. It is just as important to define where you want to search as it is to identify what you’re searching for. You may also want to target specific companies to research and apply to as well. Many online sites, employer career sites or associations will provide you with login IDs and passwords, so keep this information organized to ensure you can continue to use these sites efficiently.

- Manage tasks. The job search is a complex process. There’s the writing of the resume, tailoring it for each specific job opportunity, searching for job postings online, applying to open positions, interviewing, and more. It's important to break down the process and track all of the tasks associated with it. Use a checklist and calendar to estimate when you want to tackle each task and keep a to-do list with specific details.

- Track positions. Create another spreadsheet of all the positions that you feel might be a potential opportunity for you. Add columns for the position title, company name, how you found the position, who referred you, notes and next steps. Include jobs that you find online, those that friends have mentioned or even just companies where you may want to work. Add a column to track how urgent or important the job opportunity is to you. This process should help you to be prepared for an unexpected call, and you can quickly refer to the correct position, refresh your memory and respond more effectively.

- Follow through. If you have invested time by applying for a job, making a telephone call or completing an in-person interview, it's important to follow through on the time you invested. Send a follow-up e-mail to the hiring manager stating your continued interest. Place a call to the recruiter and ask about next steps. Send a thank-you note to them for investing some time in your career progression. No matter the outcome of the interaction, it's a great way to build your personal brand and create goodwill for future opportunities.

- Plan ahead. Remember that if you want to make a change and start a position by a certain date, mark that date on the calendar and look at how quickly you’ll need to accomplish your tasks in order to achieve this goal. For example, if Julie wants to have a new job by January 1, she will need two weeks’ notice to quit her old job. Then she has to think about how long it will take to interview — hopefully only two to three weeks. That means that she needs to have her resume completed well before that date and apply early to make sure she follows her plan.
Being organized helps you stay realistic about the timeframe and the effort your job search requires, as well as to maintain a sense of urgency when it may be tempting to let things slip. Understanding how all the tasks relate to each other can bring the process into focus and allow you to spend your time and energy more wisely — and hopefully get a job more quickly.

Source:http://careerigniter.msn.com/articles/detail/26327097?source=msnbc

10 Strategic Technological Trends for 2011: Gartner

Year 2010 is going to end soon, here the highlights of the technologies & the latest trends that will be strategic for most of the organizations in 2011. According to leading Research Organization Gartner, these 10 technological trends will surely make the significant impact on the whole industry for next three years. Strategic technology may also be an emerging technology that provides an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters. It will equally poise the enormous potential for significant market interferences in the next five years.

                                            


Top 10 strategic technologies for 2011
  • Cloud computing:
Service spectrum will rise from open public to closed private. Upcoming three years will go through the actual delivery of Clouding technology behind the walls of two extremes. Players will start offering the packaged private cloud implementations that deliver the vendor’s public cloud service technologies (software and/or hardware) and methodologies (i.e, best practices to build and run the service) in a form that can be implemented inside the consumer’s enterprise. This will offer the best management services to remotely managed cloud service platforms.

  • Mobile devices:

Mobile devices are became the key player, with a surprising amount of processing ability and bandwidth. There are already hundreds of thousands of applications for platforms like the Apple iPhone, in spite of the limited market (only for the one platform) and demand rising for the unique coding system. In Gartner estimation, by the end of 2010 1.2 billion people will carry handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce providing an ideal environment for the convergence of mobility and the Web.

  • Next-gen analytics:

Growing compute capabilities of computers including mobile devices along with improving connectivity are enabling a shift in how businesses support operational decisions. Possibly, it is required to run simulations or models to predict the future outcome, rather than to simply provide backward looking data about past interactions, and to do these predictions in real-time to support each individual business action. It will impact the significant changes to existing operational and business intelligence infrastructure, this existing potential helps to unlock significant improvements in business results & other successive records.

  • Fabric-based infrastructure and computers:

A fabric-Based computer is a modular form of computing where a system can be aggregated from separate building-block modules connected over a fabric or switched backplane. Fabric-based computer consists of a separate processor, memory, I/O, and offload modules (GPU, NPU, etc.) that are connected to a switched interconnect and, importantly, the software required configuring and managing the resulting system. FBI helps to model abstracts physical resources – processor cores, network bandwidth and links and storage – into pools of resources that are managed by the Fabric Resource Pool Manager (FRPM), software functionality. Vending service still waited to open.

  • Context-Aware computing:

Context-Aware computing is the basic concept of using information about an end user or object’s environment, activities connections and preferences to improve the quality of interaction with that end user. Aware system can foresee the user’s needs and proactively serves up the most appropriate and customized content, product or service.

  • Storage Class Memory:

Gartner mentions Storage Class Memory as huge operated & well oriented consumer devices, entertainment equipment and other embedded IT systems. It offers a new layer of the storage hierarchy in servers & client computers that has key advantages in space, heat, performance and ruggedness among them. It places a new explicitly addressed layer, not part of the file system, and permits targeted placement of only the high-leverage items of information that need to experience the mix of performance and persistence available with flash memory.

  • Social analytics:

Social analytics is procedural method of describing the process of measuring, analyzing and interpreting the results of interactions and associations among people, topics and ideas. Here most of classical interactions occur on social software applications used in the workplace. It is specialized analyzing technique that can be used for social filtering, social-network analysis, and sentiment analysis and social-media analytics.
It basically involves collecting data from multiple sources, identifying relationships, and evaluating the impact, quality or effectiveness of a relationship.


  • Ubiquitous computing:

Ubiquitous is the third wave of computing where computers are invisibly embedded into the world. Sounds like omnipresent senses, but it actually approaches and surpasses the scale that can be managed in traditional centralized ways. Apart from traditional computing, it also provides us important guidance on what to expect with proliferating personal devices, the effect of consumers on IT decisions, and the necessary capabilities that will be driven by the pressure of rapid inflation in the number of computers for each person.

  • Social communication and collaboration:

Social networking is became the demand of growing world, about one-third of world’s population connected across the social platform. Sharing & Other collaborating applications are attracting the large scale of users’ esp. youngsters. Social networking analysis (SNA) is the leading technology that employs algorithms to understand and utilize human relationships for the discovery of people and expertise. Social publishing-technologies will assist communities in pooling individual content into a usable and community accessible content repository such as YouTube and flickr.

  • Video (HD/Normal):

Nothing new as such, Technology trends in digital photography, consumer electronics, the Web, social software, unified communications, digital and Internet-based television and mobile computing are all reaching critical tipping points that bring video into the mainstream. Gartner believes that video will become a humdrum content type interaction model for most users by 2013.

Source: http://globalthoughtz.com/2010/12/10-strategic-technological-trends-for-2011-gartner/

Healthy Hair Tips for Youngsters

Your hair not only forms one of the important aspects of your personality, but also reflects your general health. It is very much vulnerable to the stresses and strains of your everyday life and also gets affected by the type and quality of food that you eat. If you are not taking care of yourself and following an unhealthy diet, your hair will tend to lose its shine and bounce and become extremely dull and brittle. You should consume a healthy diet and indulge in regular exercise to ensure that your hair follicles get enough blood and your hair remains healthy. Know more about hair care, with the tips given below.

Healthy Hair Tips
  • Before washing your hair, always brush/comb it. It will help remove all the dirt from your hair, while shampooing.
  • Give an oil massage to your scalp at least once in a week. Keep the oil overnight and wash your hair in the morning.
  • Whenever you feel that your hair is dirty, give it a wash. Don't forget to apply a conditioner as well.
  • Use lukewarm warm for washing your hair and for the final rinse, try to us as much cool water as possible.
  • Avoid using hair dryer as much as you can. Rather, squeeze the wet hair; blot it with a towel and then let it air-dry.
  • Never ever use a brush in your hair when it is wet, let it dry first. Otherwise, you might end up losing a lot of your hair.
  • Cut down on refined, processed and canned foods. Stick to fresh food items as much as possible.
  • Stay away from hair styling products as much as you can. Avoid exposing your hair to extremely hot or cold conditions.
  • Get your hair trimmed every six to eight weeks, so as to prevent as well as get rid of split ends.
Food For Healthy Hair

Protein: Meat, fish, poultry, milk, eggs, cheese, yogurt & sunflower seeds.
Vitamin A: Butter, eggs, milk, carrots, tomatoes, oily fish, dark green leafy vegetables & apricots.
Vitamin B: Milk, eggs, wholegrain cereals, bread, wheat germs, nuts, soy beans, poultry, fish & meat.
Vitamin D: Sunlight, fish liver oils, oily fish, milk & eggs.
Vitamin C: Blackcurrant, green peppers, citrus fruits, bananas, avocados, artichokes & leafy green vegetables.
Vitamin E: Wheat germ, peanuts, vegetable oils, pulses & green leafy vegetables.
Iron: Spinach, cockles, liver, kidneys, pulses, lentils, beans, peas & dried fruit.
Calcium: Cheese, nuts, eggs, milk, yogurt, sardines & root vegetables.
Iodine: Seafood, dried kelp & iodized salt.
Sulfur: Eggs, meat, cheese & other diary products.

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