Monday 7 March 2011

CURIOUS facts about nails - TrichoZed - How To Cure Hair Loss and Hair Fall

There are many interesting facts about nails, here are some of them.

- Nails grow faster in summer than in winter.

- Nails men grow faster than females (except during pregnancy and age, when growth is speeding up).

- The nails of the hand you write grow faster.

- The longer fingers are, the faster growing nails.

- After an illness nails begin to grow faster.

- Poor nutrition and diets harm the nails.


- Nail growth is affected by the condition of the body, hormonal balance and age.

- Diseases of the nails represent 10% of skin diseases.

- The condition and colour of your nails show overall health.

- Nails and hair are composed of the same thing - protein keratin.

- Nails are composed of dead cells and back of belief - they do not breathe. In contrast, the nail bed and cuticles are composed of living cells and need oxygen, vitamins and minerals.

- Nails grow by 0.1 millimetres per day, ie 1 cm in 100 days. To grow all they need from 4 to 6 months. For toenails this period is between 12 and 18 months.

- Toenails are two times thicker than those of the hands.

- The fastest growing nail on the middle fingers, the slowest - the thumbs.

- There is a superstition that you cut your nails after dark is bad luck. Indeed it may be caused by poor lighting, when to cut risk.

- Is a myth that hair and fingernails continue to grow day after death. The skin shrinks and thus look longer.

- If you run cut nails in the Coca-Cola, they will dissolve within 4 days, and its high corrosivity.
- Manicure is popular than 4000 years.

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