Health dangers that each shoe
carries!
If stilettos harm feet, flat shoes can also be
dangerous. Find out how these pretty shoes can be hazardous to health.
Jacqueline Sutera, a doctor of podiatric medicine and surgery, and Neal Blitz, Chief of Foot Surgery and Associate Chairman of Orthopedics at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, share the dangers of our favourite shoes, reports a website.
Running sneakers
Too much cushion is not the best thing. When you have a lot
of cushion, you're not getting the foot-brain feedback that allows you to sense
the ground. These shoes are ideal for forward motion like running, walking,
jogging (not hiking, dancing, cycling, etc). Wearing these shoes can cause
chronic stress injuries, particularly to the heel.
Flip-flops
Most flip-flops are too flat, too thin and too open. This exposes the foot to the environment and doesn't provide arch support or cushioning. The thong between your toes is also dangerous as it forces your toe muscles to over-grip. Wearing these shoes can cause inflammation, heel pain, strains and fractures.
Stilettos
Wearing heels for long hours shifts your weight to the balls of your feet, which puts pressure on your foot. The sky-high heels can cause ankle sprains, midfoot fractures, neuromas (benign nerve tumours).
Platform wedges
Wedges also have heels, which puts pressure on the foot. But
the heels generally have more cushion. They often have platforms, which protect
the ball of your foot and reduce the incline. But you can suffer similar
ailments due to heels.
19.09.2015
`60%
drop in malaria deaths since 2000'
The good news first -deaths due to malaria have
plunged by 60% since the year 2000, translating into 6.2 million lives saved.
And the number of malaria cases, have also dipped by 37% in 15 years.
This means that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target around malaria -to halt and begin to reverse incidences by 2015 -has been met convincingly , said a joint WHO-UNICEF report to be released in Britain's House of Commons on Thursday .
This means that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target around malaria -to halt and begin to reverse incidences by 2015 -has been met convincingly , said a joint WHO-UNICEF report to be released in Britain's House of Commons on Thursday .
Between 2000 and 2015, the under-5 malaria death rate fell by 65% or an estimated 5.9 million child lives saved. In 2014, 13 countries reported zero cases of malaria and six reported fewer than 10 cases.
The bad news, however, is that three billion people remain at risk of suffering from the vector borne disease. In 2015 alone, there were an estimated 214 million new cases of malaria, and approximately 438,000 people died of this preventable and treatable disease.
19.09.2015
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed
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