Hair is definitely not the only victim when it comes to protein deficiency. Apart from hair, the main component of skin and nails is also protein, and their quality suffers when there is an inadequate supply of protein in the diet. This is why skin becomes dry and wrinkled, nails are slow to grow and brittle and easy to break, and so on. The so-called “yellow face” is also typical of malnutrition. The blood also needs a lot of protein, and in cases of malnutrition, anemia occurs, the face becomes yellow, and a woman’s menstrual cycle is affected. Muscles are the tissues in the body that have the highest concentration of proteins, and in cases of malnutrition, “muscle thinness” or edema may occur. The body is extremely intelligent, and if the supply of protein is seriously insufficient, it will not use it to take care of the external face of the skin and hair when it is unable to take care of the important business of maintaining the blood and muscles of the internal organs. Speaking of which, the lady suddenly remembered something: edema? Yes, I am edema body ah, look at my calves, a pinch is a pit, but I have no kidney problems ah. I once fasted for a month, only drink some vegetable juice, thinking of a good detoxification, but the results did not cure this edema. I regret to tell her that her edema is probably due to malnutrition. When the protein is insufficient, the protein content in the blood drops, causing the osmotic pressure of the blood to drop, and can’t control so much water, so the water will run from the blood vessels to the tissues, causing tissue edema. If you then drink vegetable juice every day, protein intake is minimal, malnutrition will only become worse, how can this edema get better? I privately thought: one or two days a month to drink vegetable juice or no problem, a month of continuous drinking how can not cause malnutrition? Even after watching those starving refugees in the movie 1942, I am afraid that many people still find it difficult to understand the suffering caused by malnutrition. They even scramble to transform themselves into that state of malnutrition with all sorts of beautifully cloaked fasting methods – in this age of great food abundance. Sometimes when you think about it, modern humans are really an incredible animal. In fact, this kind of malnutritional edema is common among ladies who diet to lose weight. They think they are fairies and can live without food, but what they are destroying is their health.