Shoes Ruin Your Feet

I don't know about WE, but I'll make it as I'm old and don't have long left.
My kids will probably make it as my misses is a jungle survival expert, and we only live 2Km from the jungle.
People living in or near big modern western cities ....... not a hope in hell.

You'd probably be OK on your boat.
(I'm assuming the world ends with a whimper and not a bang)

 

Scientists will examine women who regularly wear stilettos and compare how different types of footwear influence the walks of those who repeatedly wear two inch plus heels.

And they will measure changes in wearers’ leg muscles using ultrasound and MRI scans.

British women spent £30million last year in corrective foot surgery, to fix the damage caused by heels.

Thousands of women need operations as they cannot walk properly after years of walking in stilettos.

Robert Csapo, of Manchester Metropolitan University, who is leading the study, said: "As with every kind of exercise – and wearing stilettos is a kind of exercise – human tissue will develop.

"Unfortunately, because the calf muscle is used in a shortened position, it will itself shorten, making the muscle weaker" he said.

"Some people wear heels 40 hours a week so it is no surprise that the body adapts to this and people complain of pain."

Researchers are examining women aged 20 to 50 who have worn heels regularly for two years.

Common operations like bunion and corn removal, which can each cost £4,000, add up to £13.8m a year.

More complex surgery like toe straightening costs around £1,200 per operation.

High heels wearers to get health check

 

We need to save the world from this scam !!!

 

this study may be of some interest here. look for the photos of native foot vs foot after a lifelong constraint into shoes.

link to pdf (temporary) :

comparative study of the feet of barefooted and shoe-wearing peoples.pdf

 

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But I saw that before another thread.

So I searched shoes ruin feet and result

 

wow they said temporary and they meant that for sure lol it didn't last an hour.

try this Gofile

this time it is an encrypted zip file. password: Hd6-Uhqb9.3hV

 

I just searched the Title but I saw that before I think it was right around the time I found this forum when links to barefoot running stuff where everywhere.


Shoe companies then invent barefoot shoes, LOL but I guess better then the regular ones.

 

Thankfully its somewhat reversible. My feet returned somewhat to natural.

This came up for before and after barefoot search Foot x-rays revealing structural changes from transitioning to a minimalist shoe. - Dr. Nick's Running Blog

 

More science My Progress with Correct Toes + Minimal Shoes

 

From last summer.

Born to Walk Barefoot

 

A key takeaway from that article:

"Calluses shield us from some of the discomforts and pointy objects we encounter while barefoot, but do not reduce our contact with and feel for the ground."

 

When fast food makes you fat, parents stop their kids from eating it as much as they can. But knowing how dangerous shoes can be, they force kids to wear those little bone breakers.

 

Also those idiotic "flip-flops." They force the toes to act unnaturally. I remember as a kid my mom got me a pair. I tried them once, and even as a six-year old I realized they were the stupidest footwear ever, and never wore them again.

 

flip flops do have advantages tho:
1) you can kick them easily
2) they break down a lot

 

Ha! True, and I used to keep a pair for "those situations," but they finally crumbled into particles. (Not from being over-worn, I assure you...more from being kept in my hot car for years.) Now I keep a pair of those ghastly rubber clogs in my car. Easily kicked, and no "toe issues."

 

mine are leather flipflops I bought from an african guy. they're handmade with a spent tire rubber sole and they broke down multiple times in 18 yrs but I kept repairing them, in perfect third world style.

 

when I was a kid I was force-shoved into the most unsightly,grotesque, ill-shaped and, for good measure, wrongly made custom orthopaedic shoes ever . I browsed around to find a picture of something like those things but with scarce luck... it appears that they were another instance of my own typical troubles -weird, awful and one-of-a-kind, just to add up to the feeling of estrangement. Suffice to say that they were ... not even black , but an horrible petroleum dark blue, with a square point and an overall rectangular form that earned me the very early nick of Frankenstein during 1st grade, high and with an odd shape, and they hurt bad even while sitting. It goes without saying that kicking them out wasn't an option. Years later they told us that, in spite of being very expensive - hence the determination of my parents to force me into them no matter how much I complained - they were wrongly thought and made, and were deemed as detrimental. So definitely yes, shoes ruin feet if you ask me. They hurt and cost a lot of money. Fuck the cobblers. Screw them to hell