Just a brief example. My mother is 74 and has no gray hair yet.
She`s an omnivori. I wish I had her genes! :-)

Tiina

At 15.00 28.12.1998 PST, you wrote:
>I'm nearly 47 and I have five (count 'em) gray hairs.  Yet I know a
>family that by the age of 20-23 have an inch-wide streak of gray hair on
>one or the other side of the head.
>
>Heredity is definitely a factor in graying, although I feel that
>nutrition (particularly minerals)can't be overlooked. I know a woman who
>had started going gray in her 30s, purchased a grain mill and began
>making her own whole grain breads from organic grains.  Her hair started
>to grow back in to its natural color.  That was many years ago, but I
>can remember being amazed at the change!
>
>Irene
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