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Monday, September 14, 2009
Why Your Nails Are Growing 25 Per Cent Faster Than Your Grandparents' Did
From The Daily Mail:
The speed of finger and toenail growth has surged by nearly a quarter over the past 70 years, a new study has revealed.
And the modern diet – rich in protein from readily available fish, meat, eggs and poultry – may be behind the spurt.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina compared results to a study of nail growth published by Oxford University in 1938 and another study from the Fifties.
The results revealed that big toenails now grow by more than 2mm a month, compared with 1.65mm in the Thirties.
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