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5 Reasons to Walk Barefoot This Spring

From the Care2 news article: After a long, cold winter, there’s nothing quite as refreshing as kicking off your shoes in the spring and feeling the grass beneath your feet. Walking barefoot through the grass, in fact, has health benefits that extend far beyond the pleasurable sensation it offers to your sense of touch. Many of these benefits have scientific …

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No more high heels: B.C. looks to end gender-based footwear requirements

From the CTV news article: Employers in B.C. may no longer be allowed to force their female workers to wear high heels, with politicians offering support for a private member’s bill to ban the dress code on safety grounds. B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver is looking to make it illegal for businesses to enforce footwear requirements based on a …

Elderly people who choose the wrong shoes have a lower quality of life

From the Plataforma SINC study news release: As people get older, they experience changes in their foot morphology. If they do not change their shoe size along with these transformations, older people — most of whom choose the wrong shoes — suffer, among other things, anxiety, apathy, loss of balance and falls, according to a study by the University of A …