Beautiful and strong nails
Nail care is as important as any other approach to body maintenance. If nails are talking about your general health status, their unkempt appearance says something about your lifestyle.
Did you know that:
1. Nails grow 1mm week;
2. The regeneration process of a fingernail completely lost last 6 months;
3. The longest fingernails ever discovered (cca.122 cm) belonging to an Indian man;
4. Approximately 45% of men are beating their nails;
5. Nail growth process may be slowed because of diseases and accelerated as a result of stress or atmospheric temperature increase;
6. Eating habits influence the health of the nails – to strengthen them our food must contain calcium, iron and zinc;
7. Small white spots that appear periodically on the nails, there are signs of lack of calcium, but is due to several types of impact with various objects.
8. Hard soap, in terms of chemical content, and detergents can dry nails, causing, in time, peeling and breaking them.
To be healthy and have strong nails in our diets should be included:
* Foods rich in biotin (vitamin B complex): egg yolk, soy, yeast, whole grains, milk, liver
* Foods containing sulfide minerals such as apples, cucumbers, grapes, garlic, asparagus and onion Salmon, nuts, seeds, tuna, etc..
* Food-rich essential fatty acids, which gives nails shine and flexibility.
To have the nails that you want, try every night to keep your hands for ten minutes in a bowl with 
olive oil, which you warm up easy. Do not let your nails to grow too much. A manicure with short and clean nails will help to keep your nails in a good shape. Use a soft nail file, which attenuate the shock that operations, felt as a trauma to your nails. If you want beautiful nails, try to drink two liters of water per day. Lack of adequate hydration leads to cracking of the nails
Utensils that you use for nail maintenance must be kept in very good conditions. Avoid borrow such items from another kit, because the danger of infection can occur at any time.
If you count among those who have the habit to bite one’s nails, you can suppress the tic, by applying a particular nail varnish (anti-biting) – a solution which taste absolutely repulsive, that will not let you to put your fingers in the mouth.
The appearance of the nails say that you have a lack of important elements which keep you healthy:
Thin nails with white spots ;your body needs zinc. You need to eat: vegetables, beans, mushrooms, whole grains, brewer’s yeast.
Deformed and jagged nails: your body needs iron and vitamin A. You need to eat: green vegetables, carrots, melon, pumpkin, red meat.
Brittle nails :your body needs biotin. You need to eat: mushrooms, grapefruit, watermelon , bananas, strawberries. Also, you can also need iron, which you can get, consuming red meat, green vegetables and carrots.
Nails with vertical or horizontal striations :your body needs vitamin B .You need to eat: carrots, spinach, brown rice, watermelon, nuts.
Nails that grow very difficult :your body needs zinc.