Proof you hair what you eat

YOUR hair could give away if you are rich or poor, a study suggests.

It is building a record of your life as it preserves chemical traces of what you consume.

A team at the University of Utah discovered hair revealed socioeconomic status as poorer people had higher proportions of protein from cornfed food.

Prof Jim Ehleringer said: “This information can be used to quantify dietary trends in ways that surveys cannot capture.”