The Safe Use Of Health Products For Weight Loss

I have noticed a surge in the marketing of products for weight 

related conditions and want to encourage the safe use of health products for weight loss!  The media is full of advertisements for weight loss and being naturally nosy, I went looking at the benefits/constraints for them.  Of course there were the usual warnings that come when using anything prescribed, but what surprised me was a warning about hair loss!

I never really discussed the importance of weight loss  during conversations with clients

about changes in their hair growth because this can be a touchy subject.  Some changes that happen during this period are:

• Rapid or significant weight loss is like a shock to the body
• The body diverts nutrients that should go to the hair to keep you going during this period
• The hair will shed after 3 – 4 months of this weight loss happening
• The body experiences nutritional deficiencies of iron, zinc and protein especially if it is rapid.
• The hair loss is possibly reversible after 6 – 9 months with diet and weight maintenance.

I sat racking my brain about the number of times clients and I struggled with hair growth

problems never considering it may have been caused by the lack of the safe use of health products for weight loss.  Women are seriously impacted because of the sheer number of instances of weight fluctuations that occur over our lifetime e.g. pregnancy, health issues etc.

Like most girls, a svelte figure has always been the ideal  but this should only be done with the safe use of health products for weight loss.

By Paula Barker, Silkie Locks Hair Design

Books:  “Talking Hair”, “Filling My Head” & “Dreadlocks – A Hairstylist’s Manifest.