THE PRO BARE-FOOT ARGUMENT...

As an individual who has never been fond of shoes, it gives me no greater joy than to present this article I found to the world. Especially Amanda Lynch Foster and Michelle Serioux who swore I was a pseudo Ras and another brainless, kinda pretty boy bourgeoisie bitch brat... but such is life tut tut tut... mi used to people not rating ME!!!! }:X Oh yeah and how could I forget KAI who complained bitterly about dirty feet, and all of the barefoot Prestonites that followed in my stead, Noah (Antonio) and Bartlett and OH how could I forget Robert... Differently still come to think of it... a from way back when me a trendsetter enuh... an imagine dem gi mi a fight eeeh, a wah mi did do Preston mek it did hate me so at first B4 mi tun Hall Ruler extraodinaire

Anyway I digress... read the barefoot article nuh and hold a medi

How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine

You Walk Wrong!!!

It took 4 million years of evolution to perfect the human foot. But we’re wrecking it with every step we take.
Published Apr 21, 2008 in the New York Magazine

This shoe and the stilettos and Adidas sneakers on the subsequent pages are trompel'oeil paintings applied directly to the feet. Nice as they look, you can't buy them.Makeup by John Maurad and Jenai Chin. (Photo: Tom Schierlitz)

Walking is easy. It’s so easy that no one ever has to teach you how to do it. It’s so easy, in fact, that we often pair it with other easy activities—talking, chewing gum—and suggest that if you can’t do both simultaneously, you’re some sort of insensate clod. So you probably think you’ve got this walking thing pretty much nailed. As you stroll around the city, worrying about the economy, or the environment, or your next month’s rent, you might assume that the one thing you don’t need to worry about is the way in which you’re strolling around the city.Well, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you: You walk wrong.Look, it’s not your fault. It’s your shoes. Shoes are bad. I don’t just mean stiletto heels, or cowboy boots, or tottering espadrilles, or any of the other fairly obvious foot-torture devices into which we wincingly jam our feet. I mean all shoes. Shoes hurt your feet. They change how you walk. In fact, your feet—your poor, tender, abused, ignored, maligned, misunderstood feet—are getting trounced in a war that’s been raging for roughly a thousand years: the battle of shoes versus feet.Last year, researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, published a study titled “Shod Versus Unshod: The Emergence of Forefoot Pathology in Modern Humans?” in the podiatry journal The Foot. The study examined 180 modern humans from three different population groups (Sotho, Zulu, and European), comparing their feet to one another’s, as well as to the feet of 2,000-year-old skeletons. The researchers concluded that, prior to the invention of shoes, people had healthier feet. Among the modern subjects, the Zulu population, which often goes barefoot, had the healthiest feet while the Europeans—i.e., the habitual shoe-wearers—had the unhealthiest. One of the lead researchers, Dr. Bernhard Zipfel, when commenting on his findings, lamented that the American Podiatric Medical Association does not “actively encourage outdoor barefoot walking for healthy individuals. This flies in the face of the increasing scientific evidence, including our study, that most of the commercially available footwear is not good for the feet.”

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How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine

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