Pavement-pounding, power-walking women of the world, you might want to sit down for a second.
A recent scientific study has uncovered an upsetting fact: your high heels might be bad for you.
Of course, any fashionable woman from the past 100 years or so could have told you that.
So what makes this “new” discovery so special?
Unless you are unaware that wearing heels on a regular basis will shorten the muscle fibers in your calf muscles, and also seriously shorten your Achilles tendon—not much.
In other words, they didn’t learn anything that years of band-aids, calf stretches and your sore feet haven’t already taught you.
But who knows, maybe this will lead to the invention of a comfortable 6 inch stiletto (it could happen).
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More on the Story: NY Times
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