Laura Washington: New research should give Black women an incentive to go natural and ditch the chemicals

The popular practice women use to straighten their hair with chemicals could increase their odds of getting uterine cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

I knew it.

According to the research, among a group of women who did not use hair-straightening chemical products in the past 12 months, 1.6% developed uterine cancer by the age of 70. Meanwhile, about 4% of the women who frequently used chemical straightening products developed uterine cancer by age 70.

Researchers “found using permanent hair dyes