Walking barefoot exposes your feet to bacteria and fungi. Such infections include athlete’s foot — “scaliness and itchiness to the bottom of the foot and in between the toes” — or ...

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“Walking barefoot can be fun,” he says, although it is not for everyone or every situation. When winter ends and warmth returns to Harvard, he often sheds his shoes and encourages new calluses ...

Winter came, and I sank my toes into the brief snow. After six months of socializing donkeys, caring for dogs at the local humane society, and walking barefoot in the woods, I fell in love.

I became interested in barefooting last year, when I started wearing those hideous, lizard-like FiveFingers shoes on trail runs. I spent a good part of the winter and spring walking around my ...

“Start with 100 yards, max,” said Michael Sandler, who with his wife, Jessica Lee, is the author of the new book ” Barefoot Walking.” “Help your body adapt very slowly.

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If you have never walked barefoot on moss, pine needles, dirt, granite and roots, then you have missed something special on all of those Colorado trails. Believe me — after nine years in ...

Sometime in the last year, I started getting pangs near the heel on my right foot. The pain was worse when I started walking after sitting or lying down, and I’d hobble for a while until it ...