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Friday, April 29, 2005

Hair dye increases cancer risk?

Hair dye is one of today's most popular trends. With hair dye, people are able to choose the color that they desire rather than their natural borned color. Not only does hair dye give the person a new look, but for some people, it helps them look younger in the sense of not having a lot of visible gray hairs lying around on their scalp. Yet, these people don't know that the uses of hair dye tend to increase the risk of cancer called Lymphoma. It have shown that long-term or
frequent hair dye users, particularly users of dark hair dyes, have a higher chance of getting cancer. In a study of 1300 women, 600 of them had this type of cancer, while the other 700 did not. That is about 46% of the study, almost half of the study. For more information, please visit the following web sites:

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/health%5Fteam%5F9/?ArID=58286&SecID=17
http://www.mindspring.com/~lisas/haircoloring.html

2 Comments:

  • Not to seem insensitive, but everything now a days seems to give you cancer or some vital illness. I remember commenting on someone's post about how using a key board could give you all these health issues. Frankly, if you live smart, eat healthy, and exercise, you are doing all you can.

    My other problem with this is what scientists are doing with these grants that test to see if hair dye gives you cancer. I'm sorry, that's bullshit. I mean, interesting enough, I suppose, but I feel as if they could use all this money on finding a cure for cancer rather than every last carcinagen that effects such a smaller percentage of the world.

    By Blogger bruckone, at 8:58 PM  

  • There are companies researching and producing Non-Toxic hair dyes.

    Check this site:
    http://actbynature.com

    By Blogger Unknown, at 8:36 PM  

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