By all accounts Suman Lal was headed for a career in medicine, but it was conversations with a fellow scientist Pradeep Paul Panengad about how women struggle with their hair that launched him into the development of a new product that could change hair salons all over the world.
Current hair straightening technology relies on flat irons and noxious chemicals. Lal and his partner realized a more scientific approach could provide a safer tool, one that would use more natural molecules to open hair cuticles and allow not only hair straightening, but also a potentially more lasting way to color hair as well.
PARIS (AP) — It's official: Ham, hot dogs and other processed meats can lead to colon, stomach and other cancers — and red meat is probably cancer-causing, too.
While doctors in rich countries have long warned against eating too much meat, the World Health Organization's cancer agency gave the most definitive response yet Monday about its relation to cancer — and put processed meats in the same danger category as smoking or asbestos.
