Getting to the Root of the Problem
Felice Prager
With all the advertising we see about hair products, we should all be experts. Right? Decide if each statement is True or False.
1. True or False :: If your hair is red, then you have less hair on your head than people with any other hair color.
2. True or False :: Healthy hair can stretch up to 25% of its length without breaking. If it is less elastic than that, the hair is not healthy.
3. True or False :: On average, healthy hair grows at the rate of one hundredth of an inch each day.
4. True or False :: Most people have about 80,000 to 120,000 hairs on your head, but they have over five million hairs on their body.
5. True or False :: The darkest hairs on a person's body are usually the eyelashes.
6. True or False :: Most of the world's population has dark hair.
7. True or False :: Unlike Rapunzel, most people cannot grow their hair longer than three feet.
8. True or False :: People with large hair follicles have thick hair and people with small hair follicles have thin hair.
9. True or False :: It is normal to lose from 40 to about 100 hairs a day from the scalp.
10. True or False :: A single strand of hair can live from two to seven years.
11. True or False :: Men's hair generally grows faster than women's hair.
12. True or False :: You would have to lose more than 50% of your hair for anyone to even notice.
