• Question: Is it true thatt if you eat your crusts your hair will go curly?

    Asked by nosyt21 to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Matthew Hurley

      Matthew Hurley answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I don’t think this has been proved – how would you design a study to find out?

    • Photo: Tom Hardy

      Tom Hardy answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      No sorry. Curly hair is genetic, that means it is pre-programmed into your body before you are even born… what you eat cannot change how your hair grows!

    • Photo: Hugh Roderick

      Hugh Roderick answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      No

    • Photo: Antonia Hamilton

      Antonia Hamilton answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I don’t know of any evidence for that.

Comments

  • Moderator - Sophia commented on :

    Actually, I believe curly hair is *mostly* genetic. But what actually makes your hair curly is the way it grows in the hair follicle (which is the little hole in your skin the hair grows from). The hair follicle can be affected by other things.

    Years ago I had to take malaria tablets for months, and eventually my hair started falling out. It stopped falling out when I stopped taking the tablets. But when my hair grew back it was slightly wavy, when it had been dead straight before.

    Various medicines are known to have the rare side effect of making hair curly. As far as I know, bread crusts aren’t one of them though!