of study shows shoes are bad for your feet

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. Researchers, in a study, concluded that prior to the invention of shoes, people had healthier feet.[photo link]

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.