Yahoos article about why your hair might be thinning

[Shibe]

http://health.yahoo.net/articles/beauty/11-bad-habits-make-your-hair-thinner

any thoughts?

[HintOfMint]

I can speak from experience that the "crash diet" or undernourishment definitely causes thinning. I went through a very stressful period of time where I wasn't eating or sleeping very well and my hair started to shed bucketloads.

The rest of the article is hit or miss. It seems like "thinning" is a stand-in for regular old damage.

[florenonite]

The rest of the article is hit or miss. It seems like "thinning" is a stand-in for regular old damage.

Agreed. And some of the advice for preventing damage isn't particularly good, either, like this:


Try wearing your hair down whenever possible (especially while sleeping; rolling around on a pillow can create even more friction).

Oh, and there's parroting of the "wash hair every two days" thing, strangely inverted; normally when I see this mentioned it's a recommendation to stretch washes from daily to every two days, but here they say to wash at least every two days, as though everyone's scalp produces (and hair absorbs) sebum on a 48-hour cycle.