Black Women, Warning to Stop Using Hair Relaxers, Linked to Fibroids [VIDEO]
November 26th, 2012 
AT2W Staff 
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Black Women, Warning to Stop Using Hair Relaxers, Linked to Fibroids [VIDEO]
There’s some startling news coming from a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The study says hair relaxers are linked to uterine fibroids and to young girls early as puberty.
When we think about this, it really brings to light why black women need to embrace the ever growing culture of going natural with their hair. We have always felt relaxers caused issues for our type of hair but who would have known that fibroids was a huge problem because of hair relaxers.
The study continues to state that:
Scientists followed more than 23,000 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 chemical exposure through scalp lesions and burns resulting from relaxers.
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