Archive for February 6th, 2010
Things You Must Know About Hair Loss
Each hair strand survives for an average of 4.5 years, after which the hair falls out and is replaced in 6 months by a new strand of hair. Each month, it grows about half an inch. “Hair loss” or baldness is a situation when the body fails to grow new hairs – and not literally due to hair loss.
Hair loss is due to various factors such as aging, heredity and testosterone. Usually, men and women lose hair thickness as they age. Genetic baldness hits more men than women. Men, however, who do not produce testosterone do not develop baldness patterns. Meanwhile, women develop a hair loss due to genetics, age and pregnancy. Sometimes, sudden physical or emotional tension could lead one to lose half of the hair throughout the scalp. The hair shedding will stop only after 6 to 8 months. This tension could be caused by severe infections, childbirth, major illnesses, critical emotional stress, medications and crash dieting.
Food and Natural Hunger Suppression
Side effects of weight loss process like tiredness, exhaustion, permanent hunger and never-ending cravings can break even strongest dieter. Hunger can be “sorted” with natural hunger suppressants which are products and foods well known to anybody and available everywhere. These products will help you feel full faster and won’t add anything to your waist or to your list of used calories so you can think about something more pleasant – your new body for example.
Number of products that are “allowed” to dieters is quite high and I’ll give you just an example that natural appetite suppression is possible. Let’s start then …
Water and soups are great appetite suppressants. Water has no calories and you can take it as much as you like. After you start feeling hunger, take large glass of water and wait for a while. Sense of hunger should be suppressed in about 10-15 minutes but if it doesn’t happen then eat (or drink) chicken or vegetable soup which will give you few extra calories and suppress your hunger even better.