By Imogen Lamport
..There have been comments on my post about flat shoes about the 'health' aspects of flat shoes, are they just as bad as heels? Should you have no heel, a small heel? What sort of other support do your feet really need?
I have to say, I'm of the opinion that we are made to walk in bare feet, if we'd needed some heel support, our body would have made more padding and lift on our heels naturally, so having a heel on a shoe is not good for our posture or the way we walk. In fact, we are not supposed to walk with the heel striking the ground first, but in fact for our foot to land more in the middle, which it apparently naturally does when not wearing shoes. Most people have shortened their Achilles tendon by wearing any sort of heel (even the quite... More...
