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Barefoot Running Featured on CBC Radio Today

Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC, is going to be talking about the health benifits of barefoot running & running in Vibram FiveFingers. On The Current – 3rd Segment

Review – Vivo Barefoot Aqua by Terra Plana

While you may realize the health benefits of going barefoot, and may even love the sensation, you may find that your feet are too tender to be barefoot all the time, and you likely have social reasons for not being able to bare your feet as often as you wish. You may live in a part of the world that is too cold during the winter to walk barefoot.

Finally shoe companies have started responding to a growing market that craves a more minimalistic shoe – one that is more healthy, simple, and more like being barefoot. READ ON…

The painful truth about trainers: Are running shoes a waste of money?

Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips…the $20 billion running – shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we’ve been told about running shoes is wrong [...]

Is your prescription of distance running shoes evidence-based?

Is your prescription of distance running shoes evidence-based? Richards CE, Magin PJ, Callister R. PMID: 18424485 [PubMed - in process] Discipline of General Practice, Bowman Building, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan 2308, Australia. [email protected] OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the current practice of prescribing distance running shoes featuring elevated [...]

Barefoot hiking: just doff it

Barefoot hiking: just doff it Earth Island Journal ,  Fall, 1997 by Darren Richardson A walk in the woods can be the perfect escape from the stresses and fast pace of modem life. Hiking allows us to enter a sensory-rich world with fresh air for the lungs, beautiful landscapes for the eyes, the stirrings of [...]