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Even in today’s global economic hardship, with unemployment hovering over 7 to 8 per cent in the United States, there has been an increase of more than 60 percent in hair restoration inquiries made through the International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons and the American Hair Loss Association.

Obviously, people are unfazed by the cost of a 2000 graft hair transplant estimated at $10,000. This is a staggering amount to spend for what you might call sheer vanity in the face of an economic crisis considered worst since the depression in the 1930s.

Vanity or not, people obviously love their hair and will do everything within and, sometimes, beyond their means to keep it. For many men and women, it spells the difference between acceptance and rejection. They will go to great lengths to relieve the pain of being unhappy with their appearance, like spending their savings on hair loss treatment. For them, hair loss means ugly.

Hair loss is often regarded as a sign of weakness and poor health condition because it indicates certain thyroid problems, anemia, dietary and mineral deficiency, hormonal imbalance, and cancer.

But while these indications may be true, they represent extreme cases. In many instances, hair loss is nothing more than a genetic cause passed on by one generation to another. The fear of hair loss is a result of an advertising campaign by the billion-dollar hair loss industry to humiliate men and women with hairless heads.

Can you imagine Michael Jordan with hair? Or Yul Bryner? Or Sean Connery? You would probably say that is part of their image. But did the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Mao Tse Tung choose to be bald to project a better image before the world? If at all, these men have proven that being bald has nothing to do with being unable to project confidence and acquire social acceptance.

Your hair has other uses aside from projecting a better self-image. It serves as a protective shield for various parts of our body. The hair on your head protects the skull and the brain, while your eyebrows serve as barrier from sweat and dust.

Unfortunately, hair care marketing experts think these are not enough reasons to persuade balding men and women to get hair analysis and convince them to purchase expensive hair loss lotions and creams, undergo hair transplants, or acquire expensive wigs and toupees.

In the face of advertisements that picture bald people in a most humiliating and shameful light, the likes of Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, Vin Diesel, and even movie actress Demi Moore, who appeared bald in the movie G.I. Jane, are increasingly growing in number to serve as role models for the unreasonably maligned bald minority.

Virgin coconut oil will keep your skin young-looking- It strengthens connective tissues so wrinkles and sagging of the skin is prevented. Dead cells on the outer surface of the skin are removed, making your skin glow. Virgin coconut oil prevents the sun’s damaging effects. Its antioxidant properties will prevent skin from sagging and eliminate wrinkles. Age spots and skin cancer usually caused by the sun’s harmful rays is also avoided. Coconut oil is actually an ingredient of many suntan lotions.

Virgin coconut oil has antimicrobial properties.-It helps prevent bacterial and fungal infections. The MCFA’s when broken down into free fatty acids can kill disease-causing organisms like bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

Reminders:
Apply a small amount of virgin coconut oil and reapply it as often as necessary. The skin will not be able to absorb the oil if you apply too much oil at once as the skin becomes saturated.

The best time to massage the oil on your skin is after taking a bath.Virgin coconut oil is also great for the hair. Amanda George, a hairstylist from New York says, she massage two teaspoons of warm coconut oil (submerge the bottle of virgin coconut oil in warm water) on her hair before sleeping then rinse it in the morning. It also helps control dandruff.

Virgin coconut oil helps stretch marks
Please try out virgin coconut oil to remove stretch marks it contains Vitamin E.  It has been a long time tradition here in south india to use virgin coconut oil on an expanding pregnant belly. Apply every day especially after a shower, while still wet. It is also very beneficial to hair after the beach, or before if your hair gets dried out in the salt water. I recommend using MeritVCO ,I already had stretch marks and mine have faded since using this oil.

Here is one secret you need to know. No plan or program can ever claim to be the fastest weight loss diet. And the reason no program can say this is because it ultimately depends on you. If you don’t follow the plan then you can’t expect to get the results. If you do however follow th plan, as long as you apply proper discipline in selecting and eating the right kind and amount of food, any kind of diet will work for you. Are some better than others? You bet, and I can help you with that.

To help you further, here are some tips that you can use to help jump start your diet program.

1. Getting on a fitness and diet regimen requires discipline and the first thing you need to commit to doing is making a food journal. Get a notebook and list out everything you eat and drink with their corresponding calorie amounts daily. Do this for at least a week. At the end of each day, tally up how many calories you ate, and also count up how many grams of protein, carbs, and fat you consumed. If you went overboard and consumed to many calories, you now know you need to make adjustments.

2. In terms of choosing which foods to eat, try to stay away from these three things: sweets, high fat foods, and processed foods. All of these items are not only high in calories, but are bad for your heart, cholesterol levels, and the organs responsible for breaking down and getting rid of the excess waste in your body. Your body is a temple, and we should do all that we can to give it exactly what it needs to perform at its best. So go healthy and opt to eat more fruits, vegetables, and lean meats like chicken, turkey, and tuna fish.

3. If you did nothing else and followed this simple secret you would leap way ahead of the crowed. Do your very best to eat 6 small meals throughout the day. In between those meals if you get hungry, have some carrots, or an apple, or possibly some granola. By eating small meals, more frequently your body’s metabolism will begin to rev up, which means FAT loss. So there you have it. I hope these tips are enough to help you get started. There is no “fastest weight loss diet” when ultimately it comes down to you. As a bodybuilder I’ve learned there are ways to speed up the process but ultimately it comes down to you, and whether you are willing to take the steps necessary to get where you want to go.