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Took a look at barefooters.org
I'm heartily convinced of the spiritual and traditional aspects of the barefooting community, and for that I salute you.
But I don't think the medical and health aspects are convincing at all. They list easily treatable foot conditions as reasons to barefoot, and leave out possible conditions resulting from barefeet which, granted, are rarer in developed Western societies, save for the obvious ailents if cuts and bruises. So two points:
You're still dragging around an unshedable layer of dirt and bacteria.
Don't walk around in any porcine stools.
I'm heartily convinced of the spiritual and traditional aspects of the barefooting community, and for that I salute you.
But I don't think the medical and health aspects are convincing at all. They list easily treatable foot conditions as reasons to barefoot, and leave out possible conditions resulting from barefeet which, granted, are rarer in developed Western societies, save for the obvious ailents if cuts and bruises. So two points:
You're still dragging around an unshedable layer of dirt and bacteria.
Don't walk around in any porcine stools.
