Healthwellness

  • StyleRedbook

    11 Sneaky Reasons You're Losing So Much Hair

    When you think of going bald, it's likely you imagine a middle-aged man's receding hairline. The more stressed you are, the more your testosterone levels increase, and that can affect the hair growth cycle, says Anabel Kingsley, a trichologist (AKA someone who studies the health of hair and scalps) at Philip Kingsley Trichological Clinic in New York City. Kingsley says stress-induced hair loss in women typically only lasts as long as the stress itself is present.

  • BusinessYahoo Canada Style

    Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop has incited a medical feud and here's what we know so far

    Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website Goop has been a running joke amongst many in the medical industry since its launch in 2008. From its attempts to sell outrageous products, like a $15,000 24K gold dildo and “sex dust” for your smoothie, to its questionable wellness advice like vaginal steaming and sticking a $66 jade egg up your yoni (vagina) — Goop has been called out repeatedly by medical professionals for its eyebrow-raising and potentially harmful remedies.

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  • NewsYahoo Canada Style

    Over-eating or under-eating these 10 foods could kill you, study says

    A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that over-consumption of processed foods rich in salt and sugary drinks contributes to almost half of all U.S deaths from heart disease, stroke and diabetes. A rather shocking statistic considering that this is something preventable. The “bad” foods included processed meats like bacon, bologna and hot dogs, red meat such as steaks and hamburgers and sugary drinks.

  • NewsRobin Arora-Desilet, Yahoo Health & Nutrition Blogger

    Is your diet changing your gut bacteria?

    Imbalances in the intestinal microbiome has been linked to the potential for autoimmune disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, irritable bowel disease, cardiovascular disease and even obesity and metabolic syndrome. An interesting fact is that your microbiome is completely different and unique when compared to another individual’s. We are colonized when we are born by the microbes in our environment, then furthermore when we’re exposed to breastmilk or formula, and when we begin to eat solid food

  • StyleYahoo Canada Style

    How to save the environment: Wash your jeans less often

    Don’t launder your jeans as often as you think you should? A University of Alberta textile scientist wants people to wash their jeans less often to reduce their average carbon footprint. “Laundering and the process of fabric care … it uses up water and resources … and energy,” researcher Rachel McQueen told the Edmonton Journal.

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  • NewsYahoo Life

    Three-Parent IVF Technique Approved in Britain to Prevent Disease

    It’s a pretty well-known fact that it takes two people to make a baby. But on Thursday, Britain became the first country to approve an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment that can create babies from three individuals.

  • NewsYahoo Canada Style

    Model edits Instagram captions to reveal the ugly truth behind her 'perfect' shots

    Jazz Egger is an London-based Austrian model who has already worked with brands like Moschino and walked in London Fashion Week. The model is pulling back the veil on her “glamorous” lifestyle and showing followers what actually happens behind the scenes by editing her captions, and adding the hashtag #thruthbehindthisshot. In her edited captions, she shares the struggles she’s faced as a model like when she was told to lose weight despite already being underweight.