What the nails know: Fingernails can provide early warning of health problems
Provided by: The Canadian Press
Written by: Helen Branswell,Medical Reporter, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Mar. 23, 2009
TORONTO - Fortune tellers say they can divine a person's destiny by reading the lines in the palm of the hand. But when it comes to discerning the state of one's health, turning the hand over is far more illuminating.
Fingernails can reveal an amazing amount about a person's health, medical experts say, with a surprising number of conditions manifesting themselves with changes in the shape, colour or overall state of the nails.