Dr Pete's Health Secrets

    There is a popular vogue for African women to straightened their naturally curly with chemicals called relaxers. Recent studies indicate that this fashion trend may have harmful effects on their health. In this article I will examine how these chemicals applied to the hair and scalp  by women mainly of African and Asian decent,  to straighten their hair,  may ultimatelv damage their health, with frequent use. Hair relaxers may be making young black women develop uterine fibroids. So if you were considering ditching relaxers to go natural, you might have a concrete reason now. A new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology reports that there may be a link between hair relaxers to uterine fibroids, as well as early puberty in young girls. Scientists followed more than 23,580 pre-menopausal Black American women from 1997 to 2009 and found that the two- to three-times higher rate of fibroids among black women may be linked to che...