October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As cancer has been a globally spread deadly disease, it’s very important to pay attention to those factors that would cause cancer and reduce the chance of the disease.
Apart from other reasons that you may have noticed from newspapers or internet, we want to talk about the potential element- hair.
As a young girl, loving beauty is her nature. Some girls like to buy various clothes and shoes, while some others like making different styles of their own hair, like coloring their hair to a totally different color or doing a completely different curvature, just to chive a beautiful and attractive hairstyle.
But do you know?
These hair styling methods are harmful to your hair and your health to different extent. Nowadays, hair dyes contain many detrimental chemicals, which may damage cells in your body and disrupt endocrine to females, and then cause cancer including breast cancer.
Here are some hair tips for you to reduce your risk of cancer.
1. Wash your hair in the right ways. Go to the hair solon for co-washing as little time as possible because this causes nothing but damage to your hair due to the processes of washing, rinsing and drying.
2. Try to reduce styling your hair like coloring, ironing, straightening or curling. If you really want a different style, you can go to your hairdresser to get a one-time haircut or you can wear wigs or hair extensions with a different style and try a new look.
3. Keep a healthy and regular diet. There are many foods containing nutrition and trace elements will benefit your hair as well as your health such as fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, and fish. Eat them properly and stay away from alcohol, cigarettes and smoked or barbequed meat.
