Barefoot safety tips from the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons
Categories: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements
While it's fun to go around barefoot, it can also be dangerous. The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons has released a series of barefoot safety tips that any sandal shunner should take the time to read. Check out our gallery for all the tips (and explanations, so you can sound wicked smart when you tell your barefoot friends what to do!).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Judy 5-16-2008 @ 5:29PM
I'm really bad about walking around barefoot. I've been bitten by fire ants, stepped on lots of "stickers" (burrs, sticktites, whatever you call them), lots of chigger bites. I'm up to date on my tetanus shots, but I know one of these days I'm going to step on a snake or scorpion or something really bad. I do keep a pair of flip flops and garden clogs by the doors, but I don't always put them on.
And getting my 2- and 4-yo sons to keep their shoes on outside is impossible!
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marcie0305 5-17-2008 @ 11:12PM
Hey Judy! I have been a closet sock -wearer for a long time :) but I find there are a lot of benefits to being barefoot, as your feet are a detox place - like your armpits - that's why they stink :) I think that it helps to connect with the earth and let the minerals, etc. draw the toxins out of your body - I hear you on the stickerburrs (as we call them here) - but those "nasties" also give your body a dose of reality and boost your immunities to "nasties" :)
Anyway, go barefoot when possible (not dangerous), I was barefoot today and stepped in a bunch of mud and decided to put my socks on over the mud, a free spa-like treatment if you will :)
~Marcie
http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com
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