QuoteReplyTopic: Does eating jello really help? Posted: March 24 2006 at 6:45pm
If you eat like one thing of jello per day can it help in faster hair growth, I heard gelatin in the jello helps hair grow or something. Do you actually eat it or wash ur hair with it?
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Gelatine, not necessarily Jell-O. If you aren't getting enough gelatine in your
diet, eating more might help you have stronger nails and hair. I'm not sure
that it will speed up growth, though.
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On second thought, it can't hurt to try! Is anyone open to eating jello for a month and tracking their growth?
I don't react well to sugary foods nor artificial sweeteners, otherwise I'd volunteer.
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If someone decided to eat jello for a month, would that be once a day, two times a day, etc.? I'd volunteer, but I'm not sure if my hair would grow that much...I haven't really been tracking the growth...actually, I don't know if I've ever measured!!! Anyways, I'm willing to give it a shot, but, like I said, I'm not sure if my hair would cooperate...might just depend on the person's hair type.
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i actually take gelatine pills for hair growth and nails...been taking them for a year and my nails are so strong , they grow so fast , i have to cut them every 5-6 days...my hair has grown and is always shiny..ppl have asked me what i use in my hair to make it shiny. i dont even have to use a shine serum in my hair u can get gelatine pills at any health food vitamin store!
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It's not been proven to help, but here's some information I found on the net:
Possibly promote nail health. The body already manufactures abundant amounts of the amino acids that gelatin provides, so it’s questionable whether extra supplies of these nutrients will help build or maintain healthy nails or hair.
The claims by Knox/Nabisco about its product for "nail health" are vaguely worded but imply that with its use nail and hair growth will improve. "Knox Orange Drinking Gelatin, with Natural Orange flavor and Vitamin C" is recommended by Knox for this purpose. Nail improvement is supposed to be noticeable after one to three months. Hard evidence to confirm this, however, is difficult to find. On the positive side, there’s no evidence that gelatin can harm you.
Special tip: --Powder formulations for use in drinks such as fruit juice or coffee should have instructions regarding amount on the label. --Most gelatin "packets" contain about 2.5 teaspoons of powdered gelatin.
If you are vegetarian and want to take supplements or medications in capsule form, consider alternative capsules made from agar-agar, a seaweed product, instead of animal-based gelatin ones.
Anecdotal reports from consumers indicate that plain gelatin purchased off grocery store shelves is a lot cheaper and just as effective for them as the fancier, pricier supplement alternatives.
Most of the powder formulations are not recommended for use in alcoholic or carbonated drinks.
Some people are allergic to bovine (cow) gelatin. If you require gelatin products for medical reasons, other sources, both fish-based and vegetarian, can often be substituted.
I volunteer to eat jello everyday...I've been doing it anyway!
For about a month now I have eaten one serving of jello every day just
because. (Childhood nostalgia? Stargate episode made me
realize I'd never tried blue? Dunno!). My diet is otherwise
vegetarian, but not 100%, and since jello doesn't look anything like
meat its hard to think of it as meat related.
Hair growth: My hair did grow what looked like about 2 mm. more
than its usual half inch a month, but I only started eating it a week
before my usual monthly growth week, so its too early to tell.
I'm waiting to see what I get this month. I will find this thread
again after that and post here to tell you.
Nail growth: I wouldn't say they're any stronger as I just broke off 2 of 'em yesterday.
I used to hate green jello when I was a kid, but after eating all the flavors recently, I think its my favorite one.
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Susan, that is so cute that you're eating all those different colors of jello! Does it make you feel like a kid? I am trying to remember back to when I ate jello - I think I also liked the green and also the red. What does blue taste like? Looking forward to hearing the results of the experiment.
I don't really feel like a kid, but it does bring back memories of
times I ate it when I was a kid - memories I never would have thought
of otherwise since they don't have any other associations. Blue
tastes kind of like a mixture between raspberry and blueberry (that's
what's on the box too, but they did a pretty good job of imitating
raspberry and blueberry).
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Is there such a thing as vegan or vegetarian gelatine? I had heard that it is made from animals.....
Vegan girl here!
Yes you can get vegan gelatin....look in your local health food shop...you can get packets of vegan gelatin to make your own jello. Or depending on the size of the shop, they might have some pre-packaged stuff
Okay, so I'm kicking this thread back up like I said I would.
After 2 months of eating jello every day, I give you the response you
probably expected....I don't see any difference. That first month
I thought it grew a little longer than usual, this month, I got hardly
no growth at all (my hair WOULD choose now to go into a resting phase
right when I was trying to study it).
There were confounds in this experiment anyway:
1. Being a vegetarian, its possible that the effect I got from
the first month was because of something that a meat eater might be
getting anyway (though not necessarily the protein, there's not really
enough of that in jello to count, it even says that on the box, and I
get far more of that from eggs, milk and cheese).
2. Its getting warmer and I'm spending more time outside doing
more active things, so that may also have accounted for the extra
growth the first month.
I may still keep eating jello though. Now I like it.
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This is a very interesting theory, gelatin is boiled animal bones, and *one might think* that marrow and protein may get in the jello from the boiled bones. If you read the ingredients on a box of sugar-free jello, there is no mention of protein. Protein is what you need for your hair to grow longer and healthier. So, I don't think gelatin is a good source to supplement your diet with hopes of hair growing longer.
P.S. And if you really love animals, you may want to avoid gelatin altogether .
Even though I totally LOVE animals and am an animal rights activist; I do go through phases where I eat jello (esp. green, LOL). Then I'll be the oposite and not eat meat products at all. It's all hormones. Any female would agree.
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P.S. dave; re: your hijacked 'blood' sentence: yes, donating blood rocks, my husband has had his life saved many times over from blood and plasma infusions; and I have a *very special* place in my heart for all who are healthy enough to take the time to donate blood.
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I'm not allowed to donate blood :( but I think that ppl who do all deserve a big warm hug!! As soon as the needle comes out, there should be hugging volunteers waiting to do their job.
As for the gelatin thing......when I was younger, my Mum used to buy these jelly beans that were high in gelatin. She used to get them from the Chemist and we'd eat them to make our nails stronger. I went to look for them last week and they were nowhere to be found, perhaps they don't make them anymore? I just thought this would be such a FUN way to get gelatin into your diet!!!
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Anyways, I'm willing to give it a shot, but, like I said, I'm not sure if my hair would cooperate...might just depend on the person's hair type.
u can get gelatine pills at any health food vitamin store!
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As soon as the needle comes out, there should be hugging volunteers waiting to do their job.
