Don't rule out coloring your hair for fear it may cause cancer -- because there's not much evidence at this point that hair dye causes the disease.Even though 22 potentially cancer-causing hair dyes were banned in Europe recently, it does not appear that any of them are actually used in products in Europe and the United States, according to a news update in the January 2007 issue of Good Housekeeping.
And only one of these banned chemicals -- 2,3-Naphthalenediol -- is even listed in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's voluntary cosmetics registry.
So if you must make a New Year's resolution come January 1, consider making changes that clearly help lower the risk of cancer. Eat healthy, exercise, lose excess weight, limit or cease alcohol consumption, and quit smoking for starters. Coloring your hair? Not so bad -- yet.
