This article appeared the other day in the NY Times the other day regarding the issue of putting our hair over our health. I read it with great interest because it occurred to me that it may apply to members of our community as well.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...487C71FEB44EFF

Although the article was originally written about concerns of women color with ruining salon styled hair, the larger question looms as she so eloquently puts it:

“Oftentimes you get women saying, ‘I can’t exercise today because I don’t want to sweat my hair back or get my hair wet,’ ” she said in an interview. “When you’re starting to exercise, you look for reasons not to, and sometimes the hair is one of those reasons.”

Okay ladies (and gents), let’s be honest, how many of us have given up or curtailed exercise or other activities because we’re afraid we’re going to “sweat, damage or otherwise mess up” our hair?