Walking barefoot can offer surprising health benefits. Taking time each day to walk barefoot or step outside and put your feet in the grass can improve your physical and mental health. Walking without ...

When you walk in the door and kick off your shoes, does it actually hurt the health of your feet to walk around barefoot on hard floors? It’s not the most comfortable feeling, but doctors say there ...

Shoes off, dogs out — barefoot walking might just be the natural remedy you’ve been missing. While most of us are used to ditching our shoes at the beach, experts say there are unexpected health ...

Grounding (or earthing)—essentially, the practice of making physical contact with the Earth’s surface, also known as walking barefoot—has been a thing among true wellness heads for a minute now.

Our feet, marvels of evolutionary engineering with 26 bones, 33 joints, and over 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments, have become prisoners of modern footwear. This complex foundation that once ...

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A shoeless talk-show appearance leads a reader to contemplate the current rules around going barefoot in public, and our critic weighs in on naked feet in fashion and society. By Vanessa Friedman Is ...

Man walks barefoot across US for good cause Anton Nootenboom is known as ''The Barefoot Dutchman'' and just broke a world record with a barefoot walk from Los Angeles to New York City. He sat down ...

As a little girl, I walked barefoot all summer long, feeling the dirt and mud beneath my feet, knowing exactly where I stood. Now, as I compile twenty years of faith columns into a book called Walking ...

Hanam City Mayor Lee Hyun-jae,held the opening ceremony of the “Soil-Scented Barefoot Road” on July 10 and introduced 15 new urban barefoot walking spaces where any citizen can feel nature and take ...

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