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Chapter 1- What Does Hair Represent?

Throughout history, long, flowing hair has been a symbol of strength. This was true for many cultures, including the Scottish, the Norse, the Ancient Greeks, the Celts, the Mayans, and many others. Many major civilizations of Western Europe, Southern Europe, Africa, North America and South America have prized long hair as symbols of wealth, strength and beauty.

Of course, there is the famous bible story of Samson – an invincible warrior whose secret was rooted his mane of lush long hair. History tells the story of how he was seduced by a woman who got him drunk, tricking him into telling the secret to his remarkable strength. As a result she cut his hair allowing him to be easily captured by the enemy.

Today, long hair is associated with varying cultural movements rather than individual cultures or civilizations as recorded in the past. For example both the hippie and Goth movements, are defined by their long hair.

In our general society, the length of a man's hair is not so important yet balding people still have feelings of great inadequacy. They somehow feel baldness is an unattractive quality. Many studies have shown that these feelings are unfounded, and vastly exaggerated as the feelings of inadequacy within the person who is bald, is far more burdensome than any weakened perception of them by others.

It has been said by many that the hair is any person’s crowning glory, giving the conception that even if the general appearance of a person is not pretty or handsome; as long as they have long bouncing hair to flaunt, there is a level of sociable acceptance that compensates for the general appearance. This theory has driven many suffering from hair loss in the direction of spending vast amounts of money on hair treatment products and therapy. True or natural hair is one of the best recognizable assets of a person. Sometimes, it can even be linked to the person’s personality – how glossy and shiny the hair looks, shows how much one takes good care of themselves. However, this is not true in all instances. There are situations when a person loses their hair regardless of the extreme care taken to maintain it as the circumstance could be health related or hereditary. There are many people today who about suffering hair loss and hopefully this book will provide the vital information relating to the varying causes, possible solutions and treatment options available to treat your hair loss.