Beauty

Alopecia: Hair Loss Revealed

The medical term for hair loss is Alopecia.  Studies have found up to 60% of us are affected by hair loss. Often, we don’t think of hair loss as a medical condition because in most cases it is temporary and can be slowed down.  However there are many different types of hair loss.

Patterned hair loss, also known as androgenic alopecia.

This is when baldness follows a pattern. Starting with a receding hairline, then hair starts to fall out further along the head to the crown. For females pattern baldness usually only thins hair on the top of the head. In men, androgenic alopecia is hereditary. But it is not clear this is the case for females.

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Essential Medicines to Pack for Your Holiday

Before travelling abroad it is easy to get caught up in deciding which bikini to pack or if you’ve got the right shades to match your sandals, but it is essential to consider your medical kit too. You never know what you could need when on holiday, or if what you need will be readily available.

Holiday Beach

 

Here are a few things to make sure you keep with you when travelling abroad to ensure you are able to get out of any troublesome situations.

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Fuelling Foods for Workouts

Hands up if you have a gym membership? That is most of us then! Unsurprisingly the fitness industry had grown into a £3.92bn industry last year, and no doubt has continued to grow this year too.

Whilst more gym memberships does not necessarily mean more of us are actually working out. Clearly more of us want to – or at least want the results working out can achieve. In particular, working out is supposed to make us look good.

The pressure to fit an image “ideal” has increased immensely over the past couple of decades.

It is commonly known that women and young girls feel a lot of pressure to look a certain way, thanks to media images and messages. However, men are increasingly under more pressure to fit into a perfect and ideal body image.Only recently there have been statistics about men being “under-diagnosed, under-treated and under- researched” when it comes to eating disorders. A sure sign that men are feeling desperate to control what they eat, particularly in combination with strict exercise regimes.

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