Children need
active nutrition to develop them into robust and healthy men and
women; and it is from neglect of these important laws of health, and
in allowing improper food, that very often bring their results in
scald head, ring-worm, and scrofula, that leave their stamp in the
poor development of the hair. With the advent of youth and the advance
of years, food should be selected and partaken of according to the
judgment and experience of its acceptable and wholesome action on the
consumer.
The meals should also be taken at regular intervals. At least four
hours should be left between them for the act of digestion and the
proper rest of the stomach.
It is, on the contrary, when the voice of nature has been stifled,
when judgment and experience have been set aside, that mischief
follows; when the stomach is teased and fretted with overloading, and
the food gulped down without being masticated, gastric and intestinal
derangement supervenes, which is one of the most prolific sources of
the early decay and fall of the hair.
The nervous system, which is one of the most important portions of the
human structure, and which controls circulation, secretion, and
nutrition, often by being impaired, plays a prominent part in the
production of baldness. Thus, it has been demonstrated by modern
investigation that the nerves of nutrition, by their defective action,
are often the cause of thinning and loss of hair. The nutritive action
of a part is known to suddenly fail, the hair-forming apparatus ceases
to act, the skin changes from a peculiar healthy hue to a white and
shining appearance, and often loses at the same time its sensibility;
the hairs drop out until very few remain, or the part becomes entirely
bald.
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