A trip to the hairdresser might be a social outing for women but men tend to just fit in an appointment for a short back and sides when they can. Now though, while women gossip with their stylist men could be receiving health advice from their barber if a government initiative gets the green light.
Men are less likely than women to visit their doctor for health advice, says labour’s health spokeswoman Maggie Mansell who suggested that a haircut could be combined with that service.
Hairdressers often dish out advice when it comes to hair and scalp health or baldness worries, but Councillor Mansell said the barber’s was a good place where information about men’s illnesses, such as prostate or testicular cancer could also be made available.
“Most men visit the barber’s at least twice a year and it is a place where men gather for what can almost be a social occasion,” Cr Mansell said at a meeting of the council’s cabinet during a debate on Croydon’s health needs.
Women regularly visit their doctor for health advice, she said, but men could be missing out on the healthy living message.
“Men don’t do that, so we need to think more creatively about the delivery of health messages to them.”
And it might not be such a bad idea, considering hair and health are closely related. Hair loss or any changes in hair growth patterns for instance, can be a sign of an underlying medical condition such as thyroid disorders, nutritional deficiencies or diabetes.
“When Labour was in power in Croydon we provided training to pharmacists and gave them information on these health issues which they could pass on to their customers,” Cr Mansell said.
“I am not suggesting we train barbers in the same way or allow them to return to their traditional role as surgeons.
“I do, however, believe using them in an information role is something that could be developed.”
Belgravia are currently in the early stages of planning an educational campaign for hairdressers and barbers around the country, to raise awareness about the effective treatments available for hair loss. Jonny Harris, Managing Director of The Belgravia Centre says, “who better to offer advice to somebody with hair loss than their hairdresser! With a bit of education they could be helping a client that might otherwise have been bald a year or two down the line.”
In the meantime, if you’re worried about the state of your health or need some advice, conatct your GP and arrange a standard check-up. If a thinning crown or receding hairline is your concern, contact The Belgravia Centre and find out what’s causing it and what you can do to stop the hair loss.
To arrange a free consultation, call 020 7730 6666 or message the centre for more information. If you don’t have time or can’t make it to the London centre, an online consultation facility is available. Fill in the form as accurately as possible and a hair loss specialist will conduct a thorough analysis and contact you shortly to discuss your condition and treatment options.
In a real Erin Brockovich style of events, residents of a coastal town in Australia’s state of Tasmania have been suffering hair loss, headaches, weight loss, and nerve damage because they’ve been poisoned by contaminated mine water, an accusation disputed by the mine.
The poly-metallic mine in the small town of Rosebery produces zinc, lead, copper, silver and gold, and locals say heavy metals have been seeping onto their properties. Toxic levels of heavy metal exposure can cause major health problems such as neuromuscular disorders, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, osteoporosis, schizophrenia and strokes, and hair loss is a common sign of poisoning.
Lithium and selenium toxicity is known to cause hair loss but lead, cadmium, mercury, iron, aluminum, copper, and other heavy metals can also affect hair growth. The toxins have a negative interfere with hormones, strip the body of nutrients, and can even damage the actual hair follicle, resulting in excessive hair shedding and impaired hair growth.
Heavy metals accumulate in the joints, bone, liver and other organs and glands but they don’t usually appear in blood tests unless there is extreme poisoning. However, the hair and nails can be indicative of heavy metal exposure, and slow, long term exposure to the metals can lead to thinning hair, particularly if there is a genetic predisposition to hair loss.
When heavy metal poisoning is suspected, it is important to begin treatment as soon as possible. The treatment for most heavy metal poisoning is chelation therapy, which is given either orally, intramuscularly, or intravenously, but it cannot reverse any neurological damage already sustained, it can only prevent further effects of the poisoning.
Many of the town’s 1500 residents are now looking for compensation from the mine which turned over a $73 million profit in 2008, despite the global financial crisis.
Peter Long from law firm Slater and Gordon believes there is “no doubt” locals are being poisoned.
“There is absolutely no doubt that these people are suffering heavy metal poisoning; the strong inference is that it comes from the mine, but that is going to require some more investigation,” Long said.
The owners of the mine will test the town for evidence of heavy metals in the environment, but general manager John Lamb says at this stage, there is no proof the mine is responsible for the poisonings.
“That will involve testing in excess of 100 sites, they’ll be taking soil samples, they take dust from roof cavities, and also any water that might be standing in yards. And that’s then subjected to a laboratory analysis for a suite of 10 metal toxicants,” Lamb said.
“I’m always concerned to hear that people in the town believe that they’re ill and believe that they might be ill from living in that town [but] the fact of the matter is that I don’t believe that’s obvious at this point.”
If “prevention is better than a cure”, when is a cure deemed appropriate? Hair transplants were previously thought to be the only “cure” for baldness, but preventative hair loss treatments are now preferred by most specialists and surgery is considered a last resort. Health campaigns conducted under that same mantra aim to prevent life-threatening conditions, but surgeons are beginning to deny the severely obese their last chance to overcome their weight problem.
Patients currently have a legal right, under the NHS Constitution, to be assessed for weight loss surgery if their Body Mass Index (BMI) is 40 or over, but some surgeons will only consider operating on patients with a BMI of 50 or more, sparking concern that people will eat more and put more weight on in order to get the stomach-reducing ops.
Surgeon Professor Mike Larvin said it’s a cost-cutting scheme by the NHS.
“In many regions the criteria are being raised to save money,” he said.
“Patients are being denied life-saving and cost-effective treatments and effectively encouraged to eat more in order to gain a more risky operation down the line.”
Chair of the National Obesity Forum Dr David Haslam agrees.
“Even the most cynical taxpayer should support (weight loss) surgery, alongside clinicians, opposing the unethical and immoral barriers to surgery imposed by NHS purse-string holders.”
It’s estimated that around 240,000 people want the weight loss operation and some professionals say that the £10,000 operation, which results in patients losing 70% of their excess weight within 18 months of surgery, is cheap compared to the long-term bill for treating medical complications of obesity.
But like the many hair loss specialists that advise addressing the underlying cause and recommend alternate treatment before resorting to hair transplants, the Department of Health said surgery should only be used as a last resort once diet and lifestyle changes had failed, and many agree.
Sue comments on Sky News that it’s not the NHS’s responsibility to provide the obese with a quick fix.
“As an obese person myself,” posts on their website, “I have to agree [that] losing weight is damned hard work, but it can be done. What does surgery do? It is a quick fix, and costly to an NHS that is cash strapped already. It teaches people nothing.”
For more information about hair loss treatment and prevention, contact The Belgravia Centre on 020 7730 6666 or send a message.
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Baldness and How To Prevent It
Find out about all of the options available for every stage of hair loss from mild thinning to total baldness. The video covers preventative treatments, surgical hair restoration and non-surgical hair replacement.
Hair Loss in Women and Preventing Female Hair Loss
Hair loss amongst women is a common condition. Find out about what might be causing female hair loss and what can be done about it.
Minoxidil - Information on Minoxidil Hair Loss Treatment
Details of minoxidil - One of only two treatments proven to prevent hair loss in men, and the only such treatment for the prevention of female hair loss or thinning hair.
Propecia - Information on Propecia Hair Loss Treatment
Details of Propecia - one of only two hair loss treatments proven to prevent and reverse hair loss in men.
Alopecia Areata - Information on the Condition and Treatments
Alopecia is a condition that presents itself as sudden patches of baldness and can in a small amount of cases result in total baldness of the scalp or the whole body. Find out about alopecia areata and what can be done about the condition.
A veteran movie maker is onto a golden winner in hair thickening awards. Michael Winner isn’t akin to male pattern baldness and while others his age are scratching their heads over his glorious mane, the 74-year-old film director is soaking his locks in beer.
Winner said the thickening ale is his secret weapon.
“It gives my hair body. I can use any lager beer but my hair prefers Heineken,” Winner said.
“You will be startled by the reaction you get afterwards from the opposite sex - and sometimes from your own sex!”
While applying alcohol topically may temporarily help thicken existing hair, it will not prevent hair loss or stop it from thinning. But Shane MacGowan from The Pogues believes otherwise.
“There is only one way to cure baldness - you pour Guinness over your head, collect it in a bucket, and drink it in the morning,” MacGowan said.
There are actually two products that have been clinically proven and even licensed for the treatment of hair loss, but Guinness, or beer in general, is not one of them.
If you’d like to know more about hair loss, including the causes and treatments available, contact The Belgravia Centre on 020 7730 6666 or message the centre. Alternatively, you could simply fill in an online diagnostic form to find out what you can do to wind back or prevent the follicular clock from ticking.
Men have labelled the President of Hair Club a liar following the release of results from a survey commissioned by the hair loss company that implies men are more worried about their locks than sport and sexy women.
According to a survey that attempted to gauge how important hair loss is, 65% of men said they’d prefer to be guaranteed they’d never have to worry about baldness than to cuddle up to Gisele Bundchen every night.
Writers and commentators of an American sports blog have asked what man wouldn’t mind having a shiny cue-ball top if it meant he could marry the Brazilian supermodel.
“Who needs hair when a supermodel is willing to bang you?” Barstool Sports writers ask. “That’s like asking would you be bald if you could be a professional athlete.”
Avid sports fans turn your heads, because this next revelation may surprise some. The American hair loss company’s survey found that apparently more than 80% of men would not go bald, even for just a year, to guarantee their preferred team would win the Super Bowl.
Hair Club CEO Steven Barthsaid said he was “shocked and surprised” by the poll results but that he understands them.
“Men are very motivated to look their best – even if it means the loss of a beautiful woman.”
Opinions remain divided about the poll results, but of course men have a choice when it comes to their hair and it’s as simple as asking yourself do want to keep it, or are you not too phased? There are treatments available that have been proven and licensed for the specific purpose of stabilising and preventing hair loss, but it’s a personal choice.
If you want to find out more about the choices men have today with regards to hair loss, contact The Belgravia Centre on 020 7730 6666 or send a message. Or you could simply fill in an online diagnostic form to receive a free analysis and personal recommendations without ever having to leave your house.
Question: Please take a look at these two photos. In your opinion, has Martin Kemp had a hair transplant? In a photo that was taken in 1999, he looks to have a receding hairline but in another which was taken ten years later in 2009, it looks straighter.
Answer: Hairline maturisation occurs in just about all men but it’s not always a sign of male pattern baldness. If you’re worried about hair loss, the Norwood Scale is a good benchmark to compare ones degree of recession and gauge whether more thinning or loss could be imminent.
The two photos you sent through of Martin Kemp are taken at different angles. The angle at which the 2009 picture was taken does make his hairline look straight compared to the older photo, but if you look at the group photo taken in Cannes in 2009 his hairline is still obviously receded.
Photos can be deceiving, and whether he did or did not undergo a procedure on his hairline is not evident by the photos. However, they are all we have to go on in this instance so to answer your question: in my opinion, after looking through some more pictures, it does not appear as though Martin Kemp had a hair transplant.
Some people buy a new outfit; some get their hair cut; some make the decision to do something about their receding hairline. When Dolly Parton decided she wanted to improve her appearance she started by bleaching her hair. Now country’s most famous woman says her “artificial” appearance is her own.
“I have always admired natural beauties,” Dolly revealed in an interview. “But I am not one. Never have been.”
Dolly, the fourth of 12 children was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, and started dying her hair as soon as she could afford to.
“I started bleaching my hair as soon as I could get money to buy bleach. Before that it was that dishwater colour. I’d get the tar beat out of me for bleaching it, but I’d do it anyway. I just felt like a blonde.”
Hair is an important natural accessory and often a defining feature that reigns through into ones personality.
“I’m artificial,” Dolly says. “But it comes from a sincere place. And I ain’t telling people to look like me. I don’t say, ‘Oh, you need to have some big hair and big boobs and overdo your make-up and have nine inch nails. A lot of men think I’m just too artificial, but there are some good ol’ boys out there who don’t.”
Culturally, people have a lot of different views about hair and what it means. Some people who deal with hair loss are totally distraught while others, men and women, shave their heads totally bald by choice. Dolly always had the hair, but it was the colour that started her transformation from a small-town schoolgirl to a international blonde bombshell, and ignited family disapproval.
“My grandaddy was a Pentecostal preacher,” she says, “and that’s a very strict Holy Roller religion. They don’t even believe a woman should shave her legs or pluck her eyebrows. Almost like some of those Middle Eastern religions. So they were afraid I was going to go to Hell in a handbasket. And they were more afraid that people in the street were going to look at me wrong.”
But Dolly is very comfortable with the way she is now, thank you very much, and wouldn’t be able to tell you how she’d look otherwise.
“Don’t even know what colour my hair is now. It’s probably grey. Don’t want to see, don’t want to know.”
The importance of hair in the bedroom and the impact of hair loss in the boardroom have been rigorously discussed by men for years, but hair colour is now the topic of the hour. Recent research has found that women with blonde hair are more aggressive and determined to get their own way, but other studies suggest they may have to work harder in the workplace initially than others and that being fair haired could be a disadvantage financially.
Women with blonde hair are given a lower starting salary than those with brunette or red hair colour, according to the results of research conducted by Australian economics lecturer and labour macro-economics expert (and brunette) Dr Geni Dechter, a decision she says could be based on pure “taste-based” discrimination.
Detcher studied the role of hair colour and the effect that physical appearance has on earnings and found there was a difference of 9% difference in the wages of blonde and non-blonde employees with a higher education, and interestingly, though the difference decreases with work experience, the pay of lower educated women with blonde hair grows faster than those with a different hair colour.
The difference in entry wages, Detcher said, is not a result of blonde women choosing different occupations, nor has it anything to do with employers’ expectations of blonde women’s ability or productivity.
“Maybe it’s a more complex preference structure - for some reason some employers don’t like blondes,” Detcher said.
“The study reveals that the wage profile of female employees is affected by their physical appearance.”
The study reports: “While hair colour does not have any effect on educational achievement or cognitive ability, college educated blonde women tend to enter the job market with significantly lower wages than their brunette counterparts, but this wage difference disappears with job market experience and disappears completely after five years in the work force.”
Although hair colour appears to have a significant impact on the starting salaries of young women, the research found it does not affect men. Various surveys and research have suggested that baldness is more likely to affect an employer’s perception of a prospective male employee than colour.
But hair still plays a role in career prospects, as does weight and height. Management Today reported that tall people earn more than shorter people while thinner employees earn more than obese employees, and Dr William Rassman, a hair restoration surgeon and author of Hair Loss & Replacement for Dummies, says baldness can put men at a competitive disadvantage.
“If you’re looking for a job right now, if you match up a person with hair to a non-hairy person, the competitive marketplace tends to favour the people with hair,” Dr. Rassman said.
On the other hand, Corrinne Mills, MD of Personal Career Management, says men and women just need to keep their hair tidy and in a current style.
For more information about hair loss and the available treatments, call the Belgravia Centre on 020 7730 6666 or send a message. Alternatively, fill in an online diagnostic form and gain access to expert advice, recommendations and a personalised hair loss treatment programme from anywhere in the world.
Farrah Fawcett’s hair is advertised for sale on a celebrity sales website and although not authenticated, it’s got a lot of people up in arms.
Mela Murphy, Farrah’s friend and hairdresser of 20 years, is shocked and unsure how the lonely lock of hair was found and came to be for sale.
“Who would it be?” she questioned. “Wow, I am stunned. I hope this person is not trying to be funny.”
The website lists the hair, with a $1000 price tag, as a “one time Novelty item from the 70’s” and makes a bawdy suggestion that give hair cloning a whole new meaning.
“Someday the technology will be available, and you might be able to create your very own angel,” the ad reads.
Even celebrity blogger Perez Hilton reckons it’s disrespectful.
“Let’s all leave the Charlie’s Angels star and her hair exactly as it should be -Â timeless icon to be cherished, not a sick novelty item exploited on some twisted website,” Hilton wrote on his website.
A trip to the hairdresser might be a social outing for women but men tend to just fit in an appointment for a short back and sides when they can. Now though, while women gossip with their stylist men could be receiving health advice from their barber if a government initiative gets the green light.
The poly-metallic mine in the small town of Rosebery produces zinc, lead, copper, silver and gold, and locals say heavy metals have been seeping onto their properties. Toxic levels of heavy metal exposure can cause major health problems such as neuromuscular disorders, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, osteoporosis, schizophrenia and strokes, and 
Patients currently have a legal right, under the NHS Constitution, to be assessed for weight loss surgery if their Body Mass Index (BMI) is 40 or over, but some surgeons will only consider operating on patients with a BMI of 50 or more, sparking concern that people will eat more and put more weight on in order to get the stomach-reducing ops.
A veteran movie maker is onto a golden winner in hair thickening awards. Michael Winner isn’t akin to 
Men have labelled the President of Hair Club a liar following the release of results from a survey commissioned by the hair loss company that implies men are more worried about their locks than sport and sexy women.
Hair Club CEO Steven Barthsaid said he was “shocked and surprised” by the poll results but that he understands them.
Name: Mr Spalding
The two photos you sent through of Martin Kemp are taken at different angles. The angle at which the 2009 picture was taken does make his hairline look straight compared to the older photo, but if you look at the group photo taken in Cannes in 2009 his hairline is still obviously receded.
Some people buy a new outfit; some get their hair cut; some make the decision to do something about their 
Women with blonde hair are given a lower starting salary than those with brunette or red hair colour, according to the results of research conducted by Australian economics lecturer and labour macro-economics expert (and brunette) Dr Geni Dechter, a decision she says could be based on pure “taste-based” discrimination.
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