How to Reduce Stress in the Workplace - Top 7 Revamping Tips for Teachers

Screaming children, flying paper airplanes, the intricacies of students’ developmental needs, instructional preparations and deadlines can haunt a teacher.

A study published in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions revealed that teachers who experience high levels of stress and burnout have different means to cope up and to strengthen self-awareness.

Notably, this study analyzed how teacher stress affects student academic performance and behavioral outcomes. 

The negative effects of teacher stress on student learning are research-based. Teacher stress is real.

Teacher stress must be reduced. There are many ways to manage stress effectively from a teacher's perspective.

Let’s begin in the teacher’s workplace - the classroom.  

Top 7 revamping tips for teachers to reduce stress in the classroom

I am a teacher and I have just shared a piece of my daily life. Working in education can be very stressful.

Although I am very passionate about my work, I feel so drained at times that I pivot around my extremes to deal with everything as sensibly as possible.

In 2019, the Teacher Well-being Index revealed that 78% of education professionals across the UK experienced an unprecedented rise of work-related stress. 

I believe that it is high time to address teacher stress.

Fortunately I have gathered awe-inspiring master plans from teachers that I know. I have included mine too.

In other words I will be sharing crisp schemes directly from my plate. It is first-hand experience and I hope that this is going to be a helpful read.

1. Make a plan and keep your priorities

The more consistent you are in planning classroom activities and routines, the better prepared you will be. Be organized and set priorities. Learn to keep them.

The more you do this, the more time you will have to give what’s best for the learners.

Being organized doesn’t only cater to arranging your essentials on your desk and shelves. It also involves classroom planning and keeping track of essential tasks all of the time.

When you just let the day flow without a plan of action, you will pick anything up as the moment dictates. This can make your overall efforts less effective.

This can result in poor results and will eventually cause a lot of stress. 

As you work your way forward without careful planning and set priorities, you’ll experience a significant amount of stress.

Unknowingly, the rise of stress levels will take its toll on your physical and mental health.

Plans help you to encapsulate two things at a time - being organized and keeping priorities.

In this way you can be more productive. You have the power to plan what you want to do in advance.

This will stop chronic stress from destroying your means of coping up and self-efficacy.

2. Build community in the classroom

Fostering a strong relationship with your students can give you peace of mind and a sense of calmness.

In this light, you can ultimately set the tone of the classroom.

You feel overwhelmed if you can’t get along with your students very well. 

With their diverse backgrounds and interests, you have to interact with them and know them better so that you can establish a strong connection with them.

As you get along with your students properly, it will be easier for them to share their difficulties with you.

The learning environment becomes safe and nurturing for them too. You and your students can benefit a lot from this technique.

Each of your students is an individual package of unique personalities and skills.

For this reason, you need to establish a healthy student-teacher relationship to promote a nurturing and stress-free learning environment so that students can learn effectively.

When a strong relationship is established between you and your students, you also feel better and happier.

3. Enhance classroom management strategies - establish a routine

One of the essential aspects of effective teaching and learning is classroom management. It’s a great way of reducing stressful incidents in the classroom.

This builds a soothing classroom climate. The adoption and application of effective classroom management strategies help to build a positive learning environment. 

As a teacher, you know how important effective classroom management is for optimal learning. Create a safe learning space.

When students are guided very well on how to go about in their daily classroom routines, it is less stressful on your part too. It’s a win-win solution for promoting lifelong learning in your classroom.

Do physical exercises in your classroom.

You can do simple physical exercises in the classroom with your students.

You can embed classroom exercise breaks as part of your classroom management strategy. This will help to elevate your own mood and also boost students’ performance.

Before you begin the lesson each day; include light physical activities like stretching, walking, jogging in place or dancing in your preliminary activities. 

Make sure that everyone in the classroom feels good and that none have any serious health problems.

Exercise breaks are proven to have a positive impact on students’ concentration and focus.

Classroom management directly affects students’ classroom performance and behavior.

Take time to enhance how you manage your classroom so that you feel good in your immediate workplace.

If management strategies are well-implemented, you will become a happier teacher.

4. Think positively and eat healthy

There are many healthy snacking tips that teachers can use to stay healthy.

Disruptive students’ behavior and all of the other challenges in education delivery can be very stressful and draining.

You can’t change things overnight. It requires patience and resilience. Think positively and take care of yourself by eating a balanced diet.

Positive thoughts and staying healthy reduces the effects of stress.

Even though the whole world seems to be on your plate, think of the good things in life and treat yourself to healthy and favorable things.

Think of healthy school lunches and drag your students along with you. Well-balanced meals can keep you enthusiastic and full of energy.

When this happens, good things will happen in the classroom as well.

Why is it important to eat healthy and stay positive?

Healthy eating and positivity go a long way and impact your overall performance. This can increase your productivity and amplifies the chances of success for your students as well. Why not try it for yourself and see how it helps?

5. Create a work and life balance

As difficult as it seems, teachers should know how to balance their professional and personal lives.

Failure to do so can affect student learning and triggers personal life problems as well.

Even though expectations for teachers may seem impossible to live up to, things shouldn't confuse you.

Maintaining a work-life balance can be very overwhelming, knowing how demanding the teaching profession is, but you should try your best to do it to manage confusions and stress effectively. 

Having been in the profession for years, I know how challenging teaching really is.

We have to think of the bigger picture of everything. This has an incredible impact on student learning and increases your chances of having a happy and successful career. 

With my years of experience, the value of discernment and reflection helps me a lot to maintain a work and life balance.

I learned to say no on certain things if it won’t affect my students’ well-being. Doing so helps me to fend off unnecessary stress.

Of course when I reject offers, I’m sure to have reasons. I’m just being true to myself. 

I give myself time and learn to take a break. It’s a matter of spending time sensibly wherever I am.

If I’m at home, I should feel like I'm at home. Similarly when I am at school, my mind and body should be literally at school.

6. Love your passion

When you enjoy what you do, you are passionate about it. Teaching really is my passion. I am certain about it. The more I love my passion, the happier I become. 

If it feels wonderful and fulfilling to teach children how to read and write, then teaching must be your mission in life.

Do you imagine the feeling of being reluctant to do what you’re expected to do? It’s very stressful and it causes anxiety.

Being passionate about what you’re doing brings meaning to your existence and gives satisfaction to those around you. 

Stress might be out of the question if you are certain that you really love to teach.

The love of our work reveals the sincerity of our actions. I hope that this adds an appreciable pep to your stress management strategy.

7. Be adaptive

Learn to adjust and control your emotions to stave off stress from the workplace.

Improve your emotional intelligence and learn to become aware of how your students feel.

Adaptability in the classroom is the most important. You should know how to handle situations in the classroom and in the workplace in general.

It calls for profound maturity, patience and resilience. 

Learn to adjust and get along with your students and with your fellow teachers.

The more adaptable you are, the better equipped you will be to face new challenges. When you practice this, your surroundings will be a motivating place to be.

Having this renewed mindset can help you adjust to new situations in the workplace and make you even more enthusiastic as a teacher.

In a way, this gives your students emotional support because you're projecting versatility and adaptability.

On a final note

As teachers, we have the fulfilling roles of helping our students to become successful in the future.

Consequently, our well-being is supremely important.

We should take care of ourselves so that we won’t fall prey to the tentacles of stress and continue to perform our duties and responsibilities effectively. We should skillfully deal with our stress responses to improve our self-efficacy.

As we continue to lead through education, we should situate ourselves and our students in a stress-free environment and deal with the mounting pressures in the workplace with utmost patience and resilience.

Ideally, our students can benefit from this too. 

To increase our student performance and enhance our teaching capabilities, we should manage our struggles, problems, and concerns very well.

Hopefully the above-mentioned practical tips make sense and can lessen the impact of stress on your life.

Together, let’s manage stress and be our best productive selves ever. 

Learn to cope up and recover.

Meet Karen Pao.

Karen Pao

Karen Pao is a public secondary school teacher and a writer of https://teachersarethebest.com/.

She is happy writing about her best teaching practices and wishes to collaborate with other educators in the world. Follow her on Twitter.

Let's talk about sets

This article is written by Rob Maxwell, M.A. Exercise Physiology, CSCS and ACSM CPT from www.fittothemax.net. Follow him on Twitter.

What is a set?

A set is a group of reps or repetitions. For example, 3 x 10 reps mean that you do 10 reps for 3 sets.

What is the best amount of sets to do in the gym?

This is a very controversial issue for some. Many fitness 'experts' argue about the perfect number of sets all the time. Intensity determines the perfect amount of sets.

Acute program variables

There are acute program variables when it comes to a workout: exercise selection, sets, reps, load, and tempo.

All of these areas are argued about, but sets are probably the hottest topic.

Intensity and focus is just as important as set number

Let me take you through a little journey of thought.

Let's say that one person does 3 x 10 reps of pull-downs. They do all of the sets to failure. They are extremely focused on each rep.

Another person does pull-downs as well. They also do 3 x 10, but they stop far short of failure and they are thinking about their grocery list during the workout.

Are they really doing the same amount of work? The sets and reps are exactly the same, but the results will be very different. Anybody would admit that.

Here is another example. One person does 1 set of 12 reps to failure. Another person is does 3 x 12 reps of the same exercise but without as much intensity. Are they equal?

That is a tougher question, isn’t it? We are all different, but I would bet on the one who was doing less work with more intensity.

There has been study after study that has shown that less can be more.

If you are really going hard and going to failure; the more sets you do, the more likely you will be cutting into your recovery and stalling results. In that case, fewer sets are going to be far more productive.

Does that mean that more sets are bad? No, different sets numbers each have their place. You must consider all variables when looking into this.

What about doing a single set?

Years ago Nautilus, Inc. and Arthur Jones pushed the “One set to failure” routines. I know people that worked for them.

They were legit and the science demonstrated that the single set people could benefit more.

This is mostly because it is extremely hard to focus intently and go hard when you are going to be there for a long time. It is human nature.

You must also consider the recovery aspect. I have always said that you can go hard and you can go long, but you cannot do both. Pick one.

Dr. Mike Fulton was a mentor of mine for many years. He does a fantastic job with back rehabilitation and using exercise as the means to do so.

He was the Medical Director for Nautilus. We would talk shop often. I loved his quote when he said, “It’s not that multiple sets don’t work. It’s just that single sets to failure work as well in far less time.”

Bingo! It is more efficient. We have learned in exercise science that if you want to get stronger, you must go harder. You must overload.

How are you doing that if you are doing too much volume?

I am not a proponent of just one way of training. There are many effective ways.

My point is that you must know what you are doing and why you are doing it.

I train a lot of people that have things to do. They want to learn the best way to train in a time-frame that works for them.

Many do not want to spend 90 minutes at the gym. They do not need to!

Some of my best results have come from single set and low set programs.

There is a catch - and that is that it is hard! It is extremely hard. That is what makes it so good.

When you can really focus in on that one thing, you can give it your all. Am I right? It is human nature.

We tend to save our energy when we have multiple sets to do

If I told you to do this set of squats with 225 pounds and do it until you can’t do anything else, you will focus in and go till you blow!

If I said that we are doing 3 sets of as many as you can and I told you this beforehand; don’t you think that you would stop short of where you would if you were doing it one time? Of course you would - and so would I.

Find the set range that works for you

Do your own research. Experiment on yourself. Measure yourself, preform a plan for 6 weeks, measure yourself again and see what results you get. Test other programs. Take time to do research and understand the mechanics behind what you are doing. There are many effective ways.

Compare apples to apples when you look at how many sets and other variables to do. Make sure that you consider form, focus, and intensity. You must compare apples to apples if you want a fair assessment.

Three sets of 10 while going all out with great form is vastly different than 3 sets of 10 with horrible focus and form.

This article is written by Rob Maxwell, M.A. Exercise Physiology, CSCS and ACSM CPT from www.fittothemax.net. Follow him on Twitter.

Health benefits of drinking raisin-soaked water

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Benefits of drinking raisins soaked water

1. Keeps your blood pressure in check

2. Lowers cholesterol 

3. Boosts energy 

4. Helps to detox your body

5. Helps with digestion

Don't you just love raisins? Who knew that dried grapes were such a rich source of fiber, vitamins and minerals?

If you soak raisins in water overnight and drink that leftover water, it could actually be more beneficial for your health.

1. Raisin water keeps your blood pressure in check

According to research, raisins are a rich source of potassium, antioxidants and dietary fiber.

All of these nutrients help to keep your blood pressure under control.

Potassium keeps the blood flow stable and helps the heart to pump blood. Antioxidants help the endothelium - an inner layer of the arterial blood vessel.

Raisin water contains dietary fiber. It helps with the digestion process and burns fat.

2. Raisin water lowers cholesterol 

Cholesterol is another problem that can be solved with raisin water. Potassium and dietary fibers are hard at work once again. 

As I mentioned earlier, potassium and dietary fiber plays a critical role in keeping blood circulation stable. As a result, the cholesterol levels in your blood stay contained.

All of this helps your heart to stay healthy. Thanks to stable blood circulation, the heart doesn't have to pump blood at a faster rate. This keeps most types of cardiovascular problems away.

Wow, just one glass of raisin water could do all of that!

3. Raisin water boosts energy 

When you see people waking up in the movies, they usually have a lot of energy. It's a different story in reality. Our heart lowers our blood pressure so that we can rest properly when we sleep.

Our body is still coping with that when we get up in the morning. That is why we don't feel very energetic right away.

Drinking raisin water in the morning can be very helpful and gives you an energy boost.

Raisins were found to be a good alternative to sports jelly beans in a study with 10 healthy athletes.

Raisins also contain micronutrients that help to boost metabolism and stamina.

One glass of raisin water every day may just help you to keep the doctor away.

Since we are talking about boosting energy, many people turn to energy drinks for help. Well, raisin water can be a good alternative to that too - and much healthier.

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4. Raisin water helps to detox your body

If you're someone who likes eating junk food, your kidneys and liver are hard at work to ensure your well-being.

These are your body's protectors against toxins and nasty chemicals. Unfortunately there are so many of these toxic particles that they can overwhelm our protectors sometimes. 

Our poor bodies are loaded with more toxins than what they can expel.

This is where raisin water comes to the rescue yet again.

This unlikely hero boosts the body's digestion process because of the dietary fiber in raisins.

Fiber acts as an elixir to your digestion process. Fiber binds to toxins so that they can be eliminated.

Additionally, the antioxidants which we spoke about earlier also help to boost the functions of your liver and allow it to perform at its best.

Sweating is also a great way to detox your body.

Now you have one more reason to drink raisin water every morning.

5. Raisin water helps with digestion 

The combination of potassium that helps your blood circulation, and your one true friend, fiber makes this gargantuan task of regular digestion possible.

This duo makes sure that your intestines are doing the job that they were meant to do.

Ease your digestion process with nutrients that your body wants. When you consume a lot of food that has other toxic properties, the intestines may find it difficult to process that food. This can give you some serious stomach related problems.

This is why if you drink raisin water every morning you're empowering this area of your body to function at its best.

A happy tummy leads to a happy life.

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5 Healthy ways to strengthen bones naturally

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5 ways to strengthen your bones

1. Increase calcium intake

2. Exercise regularly

3. Get enough vitamin D

4. Avoid alcohol

5. Consume more potassium

Bones literally support your body's entire system. Apart from providing structure; they also protect organs, anchor muscles and store calcium.

It is very important to keep your bones strong and healthy.

You tend to gain more bone mass when you are young. Your body starts to lose more bone mass than it can gain after the age of 30. You can slow down this process (and reverse damage in some cases) through healthy lifestyle choices.

One in three women over the age of 50 years - and one in five men - will experience bone fractures in their lifetime according to recent statistics.

Don't worry, though. It's not as bad as it sounds - if you take good care of your bones.

Follow these healthy bone-strengthening habits to keep bones healthy and your bones will likely remain dense enough when you're older without causing any problems.

If your bones are thin and unhealthy, they might start deteriorating quickly. This can lead to weak, brittle bones and diseases like rickets and osteoporosis.

It can be expensive and difficult to get back to healthy bones when it is already too late. No matter what your age is, take care of your bones!

1. Increase calcium intake for stronger bones

The first thing that usually comes to mind when you think about bone health is calcium.

Maintaining a proper calcium intake can make bones stronger. The recommended amount of calcium per day is a thousand milligrams for most people. Teens need 1,300 milligrams and older women require 1200 milligrams.

Foods such as cheese, yogurt, beans, salmon and sardines are rich in calcium. I would suggest filling your calcium needs through diet rather than supplements and tablets.

2. Exercise regularly to strengthen bone health

Regular exercise is the key to keeping a number of health issues at bay - and bones are no exception.

Your bones respond to exercise by becoming stronger. Exercise actually increases bone density.

Exercising can also help you to maintain muscle strength, coordination and balance. This helps to prevent falls and related fractures.

A sedentary lifestyle is considered a risk factor for osteoporosis.

One study found that athletes who exercise regularly have the highest bone density. This shows that exercise has a positive effect on bone health.

Weight bearing and resistance exercises are best for strengthening your bones.

Weight-bearing exercises can be any form of exercise like hiking, walking, jogging, climbing and body-weight exercises. Resistance exercises include lifting weights.

You can pick your choice or do both of these.

3. Get enough vitamin D to improve bone health

Just like calcium, vitamin D is also vital for good bone health. It protects your bones by helping your body to absorb calcium.

Vitamin D also helps support the muscles needed to avoid falls.

Children need vitamin D to build strong bones and adults need it to keep their bones strong and healthy.

If you don't get enough vitamin D, you're more likely to break your bones as you age.

Some good sources of vitamin D are sunlight and foods like salmon, tuna, orange juice and soy milk.

4. Avoid alcohol to keep your bones strong

You should be aware that drinking too much alcohol is bad for your body.

A lesser-known ill effect of alcohol is that it damages your bones. Drinking alcohol can impact bone nutrition and disrupt the hormone regulators that are important for bone formation.

It reduces this process by directly inhibiting bone forming cells, but you don't have to throw out those liquor bottles right away.

You can drink no more than one alcoholic beverage a day if you're a woman and a man can consume no more than two drinks per day to avoid health problems.

5. Consume more potassium to strengthen bones naturally

Potassium helps to maintain a healthy acid/alkaline balance in the body. This leads to reduced calcium loss.

Potassium also plays a buffering role in your blood by keeping the bone strengthening materials like calcium and phosphorus from being lost from the bones and kidneys. 

Researchers found that people with high potassium intake have 8% greater bone mineral density than those with the lower intake.

You can get potassium through foods like legumes, bananas, spinach, broccoli and potatoes.

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9 Health benefits of sunlight

9 Amazing health benefits of sunlight

1. Prevents cancer

2. Prevents health problems

3. Helps with depression

4. Kills bacteria

5. Helps you to live longer

6. Curbs appetite

7. Gives you good sleep

8. Can improve lung function

9. Helps with blood pressure

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Have you heard from a friend, family member or somebody else that we get vitamin D from sunlight? Do you think that the largest star in our sky is only giving us vitamin D without any other health benefits?

You will soon discover that sunlight is essential for our health - and that Vitamin D is only one major component of that.

There are many other benefits of sunlight. Unfortunately, very few people know about this.

1. Sunlight helps to prevent cancer

We know that sunlight gives us vitamin D. Do you know why this is good for us?

The lack of sunlight might be one explanation for the increase of colon cancer.

Sunlight helps us to produce vitamin D which prevents cancerous activity in the body.

The two links above point to studies if you would like to find out more.

2. Sunlight prevents health problems

We should remember that we produce most of our vitamin D at no extra cost when we do it in the sun. It's just the way that nature intended.

We think that this is simple, but it is done through a complex process in which our skin reacts to sunlight.

 You can avoid all sorts of health problems and get clear skin if you have enough Vitamin D.

Vitamin D deficiency can result in mental illnesses like Alzheimer's and dementia, tooth decay, a compromised immune system and osteoporosis.

Click on the specific link that you want to learn more about.

Vitamin D deficiency is becoming an urgent health problem.

The best way to stock up on this is to eat certain foods rich in vitamin D like fish and fortified milk.

Get at least one and a half hours of direct sunlight each week. Break this up into smaller intervals to prevent sun burn and subsequent skin damage.

3. Sunshine helps with depression

The chemical serotonin, which positively affects your mood, is produced when sunlight reaches the retina. This process sends a signal through the optic nerve to increase levels of serotonin and boost your mood.

It is well known that most antidepressants work on the principle of artificially making sure that serotonin levels are high.

4. Sunlight kills bacteria

Bacteria and other small microorganisms (like yeast, viruses and fungi) are present everywhere.

They are on your hand, body and everywhere else.

Sunlight has antibacterial properties and can kill these microorganisms.

5. Sunlight may help you to live longer

The University of Graz in Austria followed several thousand heart patients for a number of years. They found that there was a correlation between earlier death and low levels of Vitamin D.

The study suggests that longevity may well be affected by maintaining optimal levels of Vitamin D.

The best and cheapest way to improve Vitamin D levels is to get more sunshine.

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6. Sunlight curbs your appetite

Sunlight helps to curb your appetite.

Maintaining sufficient Vitamin D levels, either through supplements or by getting more sunshine, can actually help you to keep that appetite under control.

Weight loss accompanies the appetite diminishing effects of Vitamin D.

Those who have more problems with obesity also have low levels of Vitamin D.

7. Sunlight improves sleep quality

People would assume that sleep and sunlight aren't related because we sleep when the sun has already gone down.

This isn't true because your normal sleep/wake cycle has to be maintained through daily time cues.

Researchers now say that one essential element in favor of melatonin production (which is the sleep hormone) at night is to get sunshine at the same time every day.

The more sunshine you get during the day, the better your sleep will be at night time.

8. Vitamin D improves lung function 

Vitamin D boosts lung immunity and protects it from disease.

Vitamin D deficiency leads to chronic lung disease and malfunction.

Vitamin D is anti-inflammatory. It reduces mucus production. Vitamin D plays a hormonal role in almost every part of your body. One of its functions is to improve the strength and function of the lungs. It decreases allergic responses in diseases like asthma, hay fever, eczema and allergies.

Excess mucus production causes many complications - especially when it comes to the lungs.

9. Sunshine helps with blood pressure

People who suffer from vitamin D deficiency are more likely to suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure).

The above link also explains that Vitamin D deficiency leads weaker bones and poor heart health as well.

The health benefits of sunshine are absolutely free. The whole process is actually very easy. We cannot think of a better way to look after our health.

We just need to remember to have adequate protection and to do everything in moderation. Even too much exercise or too much sleep is bad for you.

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11 foods for glossy and shiny hair

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Do you spend hundreds of dollars at the drugstore looking for the perfect combination of products to make your hair lustrous and strong, but hardly notice results?

Like many health concerns, products usually mask the problem and don’t get to the real source. 

Hi readers and welcome back!

Your daily hair care regime should start at the table, not the drugstore. That’s because your hair needs to be nurtured from the inside in order to look its best. 

Adjusting your diet can play a huge role in giving you healthier and shiny hair - among a host of other health benefits. Today I will tell you about the best foods to eat to achieve happy, healthy hair.

11 foods that give you shiny and glossy hair

1. Avocado

2. Eggs

3. Figs

4. Cashew Nuts

5. Chia Seeds

6. Sweet Potatoes

7. Carrots

8. Cucumber

9. Pumpkin seeds

10. Almonds

11. Lemon

1. Avocado

Avocados are packed with monounsaturated fats, fatty acids and vitamin E. All of these nutrients help to promote nourished shiny and strong hair.

This healthy fruit is also surprisingly high in protein and it is rich in B vitamins. 

Add a healthy dose of avocados to your diet in order to reap these benefits.

You can also add it to your hair care routine by mashing one up and applying it directly to your hair as a moisturizing and nourishing treatment.

2. Eggs

Egg yolks are rich in fats and protein. They contain naturally moisturizing properties.

Egg whites remove unwanted oil and grease buildup thanks to bacteria-eating enzymes. This gives your hair extra shine.

Eggs are also full of biotin, a B vitamin that promotes hair growth and overall scalp health. A deficiency of biotin can cause brittle hair.

Treat your hair to these benefits by mixing two egg yolks and 1-2 tbsp. of olive oil. After shampooing, lather the egg treatment in your hair. Let it sit for 5-6 minutes and rinse. This hydrating treatment yields striking results.

You can also get egg’s hair-promoting benefits by making it a part of your regular diet.

3. Figs

Figs are very nutrient-rich fruit. They can help reduce hair fall and promote healthy hair growth.

You should eat figs regularly if you have damaged and weak hair.

Figs also help you to get shiny and smooth hair texture by improving blood circulation. 

You can add figs to baked dishes, have it as preserves or by itself as dry fruit.

4. Cashew nuts

Linoleic and oleic acid consumption is the key to silky-smooth hair. Cashew nuts are a great source of these two acids.

They enhance your hair’s texture and add a form of luster to it. 

Not just that, but cashew nuts are also loaded with Copper - which has been known to enhance your hair growth.

5. Chia Seeds

Foods that are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids are a must for shiny hair. Chia seeds are filled with Omega-3's.

They also include powerful vitamins and minerals such as phosphorus, calcium and protein. All of these nutrients encourage hair growth and strong hair. 

These seeds couldn’t be easier to add into your diet. Just sprinkle a spoonful into your morning glass of milk or breakfast smoothie and stir to mix. You can have chia seeds as it is as well.

6. Sweet potatoes

This yummy vegetable has amazing health benefits for your hair. Sweet potatoes are your one-stop solution from providing moisture to promoting hair growth.

They are loaded with Vitamin A. This provides your hair with the hydration that it needs. It also boosts your scalp’s natural oils.

Sweet potatoes are also very beneficial in giving you a radiant face and can remove scars.

This provides unmatched hydration to thirsty strands, helps seal in moisture and add shine and luster to your hair.

Deficiency of Vitamin A can make your hair brittle. They will tend to break easily. The deficiency also makes them seem lifeless and dull.

Additionally, the high levels of beta-carotene in sweet potatoes promote hair growth and play a major role in making them strong and healthy.

7. Carrots

Famed for their role in keeping eyes healthy, carrots can also help to create a full and healthy head of hair.

These vegetables help you to get that shiny, well-conditioned look by maintaining the natural oils in the hair and keeping your scalp in tip top condition. This is thanks to the nutrients and fibers on carrots, including Vitamin A.

Carrots can also help to protect your hair and skin from sun damage. This is due to its rich Vitamin A and precursor nutrient (carotenoids) content. 

Carotenoids are pigments which give colors like red, yellow or orange to plants.

8. Cucumber

Cucumbers contain a unique combination of antioxidants that help your body to get rid of free radicals. The faster you get rid of these free radicals, the better it is for you. Free radical build up can cause problems like hair graying, hair loss and dullness. 

Cucumbers also have certain compounds that can detoxify and cleanse your body. 

Your body is better able to absorb nutrients and nourish cells and tissues, including hair cells, when your system is clean.

Cucumbers also contain silica which can give a lovely shine to your hair.

9. Pumpkin seeds

You also need B vitamins to grow lush and beautiful hair. You can get that from pumpkin seeds.

Pumpkin seeds naturally contain biotin or Vitamin B 7. This Vitamin promotes the growth of strong and resilient tresses and encourages faster hair growth.

Pumpkin seeds also contain vitamin C as well. This helps to produce sebum. Sebum is the body’s natural oil that conditions hair and gives it shine.

Don’t throw your pumpkin seeds away. Remember to keep them for their health benefits!

10. Almonds

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a list of healthy foods that almonds aren't on. Did you know that they are great for your hair?  

Almonds are not only good for your hair but there are several benefits of eating almonds.

These nuts are extremely high in vitamin E. This is the key for maintaining smooth, supple and hydrated skin. 

Dehydrated skin can negatively affect circulation. This leads to stunted hair growth, breakage and dullness.

11. Lemons

Lemons have a very high concentration of vitamin C. This helps to build collagen.

Collagen production is vital to help your hair grow.

Vitamin C also helps your body to absorb iron. Iron strengthens the hair shaft.

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