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Are you stressing out your strands? Research reveals the best way to brush your hair to prevent split ends

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Are you stressing out your strands? Research reveals the best way to brush your hair to prevent split ends

Knotty girls could face a brush with disaster.  Hair maintenance is an all-too-important, albeit tricky form of self-care that, if mishandled, could leave folks with spilt ends, warns a new, hair-raising report.  Rather than traumatizing one’s tresses with excessive heat — which causes hair to become brittle — followed by immediate brushing, researchers from the University of Dublin suggest … Read more

How much sleep do you actually need? Here’s why experts say you should stop stressing

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How much sleep do you actually need? Here’s why experts say you should stop stressing

Experts suggest that Americans stop worrying about getting a perfect eight hours of sleep and warn that stressing about the magic number may actually result in a drop in sleep quality and duration. Dr. Reena Mehra, a director of sleep-disorders research at the Cleveland Clinic, told The Wall Street Journal that consciously focusing on falling asleep … Read more