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Your hair is more sensitive than you could ever think.There are things you have been doing which are damaging your hair without noticing.

Here is a sample of what you should avoid.

Stressing yourself out.Stress has a huge impact on all your body parts. Maybe you thought it only affects your mental health but it also triggers the loss of hair with tour hair being prone to falling out.

Poor diet.It's very important to watch what you eat.Taking the right diet enriched with the right vitamins will not only prevent hair loss but also boost the growth rate of your hair.

Swimming in hard water or washing your hair with hard water.Some of the minerals found in hard water create a huge negative impact on your hair which could lead to hair loss.You need to prevent your hair from getting into contact with hard water as much as you can.

Dying and applying chemicals to hair.This is common with a lot of black women whose hair is really hard.Exposing your hair to such weakens it and eventually leads to your hair falling off.