Barbers Can Cut To The Chase With Medical Advice Health And Beauty

The Hair Heart and Health program joins a groundswell of similar efforts across the country Health And Beauty. All expand on the unique cultural role that barbershops and hair salons play in the black community to raise awareness about Health And Beauty issues, particularly those that disproportionately affect black Americans.

Some see the phenomenon as a powerful indictment of the health-care system. Many black Americans have not been encouraged enough to seek preventive care Health And Beauty, said Stephen B. Thomas, director of the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh Health And Beauty.

Health And Beauty Another UNC study found that nearly one in five conversations in hair salons is already health-related. The trick is to teach barbers and stylists how to weave health messages into those chats, Health And Beauty study leader Laura Linnan said.

Farther from Washington, forums have been held in barbershops in Boston Health And Beauty, where nutritionists served healthy dinners, and in Syracuse, N.Y. where nurses talked with cancer survivors. In Detroit,Health And Beauty a program co-sponsored by the Michigan chapter of the National Kidney Foundation since 1999 has enlisted more than 800 stylists Health And Beauty.