Awhile ago I heard that wearing shoes is actually bad for your feet because you become dependent. Sure enough this is true. I was doing some research and throughout a couple of sources that deal with health prove that we are most likely to injure ourselves wearing shoes. Our feet become weak and were unable to support ourselves without them. Companies are now making better shoes for health but were still behind on being able to adapt. One of the worst offenders are high-heels and there’s a reason complain about them is because they are not comfortable, imagine what wearing high-heels does to the arch of your foot and forming your feet while wearing them everyday. Sneakers also can be bad for you because again you become dependent on the arch the shoe provides. This case study done by a student at Penn State goes into detail with case studies examining these issues with shoes. This is an excerpt from her report.
A study was conducted by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg called “Shod Versus Unshod: The Emergence of Forefoot Pathology in Modern Humans?” In this study they “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.” Rana Mohamd
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