Use of shoes increases stress on the back and the spinal cord,especially high heels.
Mother Nature has outpaced science once again: the bare human foot is better for running than one cushioned by sneakers. What about those $125 high-tech running shoes with 648 custom combinations? Toss ’em, according to a new study published online January 27 in the journal Nature (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).
“Most people today think barefoot running is dangerous and hurts,” Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, said in a prepared statement. “But actually you can run barefoot on the world’s hardest surfaces without the slightest discomfort and pain…It might be less injurious than the way some people run in shoes.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=running-barefoot-is-better-research-2010-01-27
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