Because I can't understand the lack of Hair follicles on the Boys, except for Schroeder, Who's got enough to spare for both Charlie Brown and Linus.
shareLiving near a toxic waste dump tends to do that.
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Charlie Brown is as bald as a cue ball. Schroeder, the Beethoven loving, toy piano player, has the most hair hair as any of the "Peanuts" boys.
shareIt's hard to judge hair in a comic strip (cartoon is a bit more revealing due to colors and animation), Charlie -could- theoretically have lots of very smooth or very well-combed flat hair that he keeps very short.
I know it's probably not the case, but why are you linking nutrition and hair? Have you never seen malnourished people with hair?
Hair can fall out or not grow much for VARIETY of reasons, why would you jump straight to nutrition?
Linus is obviously the type that has very thin and sparse hair anyway, but I would attribute his hairstyle to having to live with the most stressful, misandristic, unfair, VIOLENT monster ever - Lucy is a living embodiment of KAREN in her youth!
If you watch the strips, Lucy is also quite violent, and it's pretty shocking, when you think about it - an older sibling beating up and yelling at a younger, helpless sibling. Genders reversed, Schultz would've been murdered decades ago.
What I am getting at, living with Lucy would cause a _LOT_ of stress, even to an adult, but especially a bullied, beaten-up younger brother that's not even allowed to defend himself or fight back because 'men are not allowed to hit women' (or boys girls), but otherwise, it's perfectly fine for some EQUALITY-based reason, I am sure.
When you remove a tiger's teeth, and then laugh at the tiger for taking a beating from a human, don't be surprised if the tiger loses some hair due to stress. Men are stronger, so they can't hit women, who are weaker, so now the men are actually weaker, because they are not allowed to use their strength, but STILL they are laughed at when women beats them up (kinda easy to beat up someone who is not allowed to fight back..)
It's a real catch-22 Linus has to live with, anyone would lose hair over that.
Charlie is DEPRESSED, perhaps the most depressed kid in the whole fictional world of fictional characters. Depression can do all kinds of things, like block hormones or alter normal functioning of the body.
It's no wonder someone who is DEPRESSED might not have a normal hair growth, regardless of nutrition.
Everyone's nutrition in USA is pretty bad anyway, the food quality there is not very good, and their food habits are horrible; CEREAL for breakfast (Charlie has been shown to eat this) and then some cruelty or animal torture products for dinner and supper (as it was called back then).
No wonder the hair is falling out.. it's not just nutrition, but these kids definitely do not get good nutrition. Chances are, Schroeder doesn't, either, but he has a PASSION that keeps him active and healthy anyway (and he has quite an extreme exercize routine, as once shown).
So, in a way, Schroeder is the only one with some kind of "purpose" in life that he can cultivate daily. Linus is just trying to cope his horrible situation with the psycho sister, Charlie is trying to cope with his depression, but anything he tries just makes it worse, because he fails at everything - even his beloved baseball (which there's WAY too much of in the strips, by the way)..
Schroeder has the healthiest inner life, so his outer form reflects that.