Is going barefoot good for you?

Answer 1

it is good for me, was it good for you YES definitely*

Answer 2

Yes it is that is why I am barefoot almost all the time.

It makes me happy, it feels great, my doctor tells me I have very healthy feet from going barefoot a lot and I have never had any pains or aching.

Bare feet are best

Answer 3

According to my doctor and podiatrist it is. I agree with her so I love going barefoot often.

Answer 4

Yes, it's very good.

Going barefoot is good for the feet itself as well as for your entire posture; almost everyone knows high heels throw off the entire skeletal alignment but any heel that's even the least bit elevated will do that to some extend.

The feet itself get very strong very quickly, both in their skeletal/muscular structure as well as in the soles. Feet do NOT need support even on manmade surfaces; from "Survey in China and India of Feet That Have Never Worn Shoes": One hundred and eighteen of those interviewed were rickshaw coolies. Because these men spend very long hours each day on cobblestone or other hard roads pulling their passengers at a run it was of particular interest to survey them. If anything, their feet were more perfect than the others. All of them, however, gave a history of much pain and swelling of the foot and ankle during the first few days of work as a rickshaw puller. But after either a rest of two days or a week's more work on their feet, the pain and swelling passed away and never returned again. There is no occupation more strenuous for the feet than trotting a rickshaw on hard pavement for many hours each day yet these men do it without pain or pathology.
It only makes your feet 'huge' in the way 17th century women got a 'huge waist' from not wearing a corset. It's shoes that damage our feet and squish the toes; our feet are *supposed* to be rather sturdy and wide, with straight toes and often even a gap between the first and second toe.

The sole can get tough enough so that even glass and thorns are no longer of serious concern. I've been barefoot for well over ten years, I walk and run barefoot in cities and around train stations with lots of litter and I've NEVER had a cut, I get a tiny splinter maybe once a year. Just in case I do get an injury, I keep my Tetanus vaccine up to date, but fortunately that vaccine has been around since the 1920's, and since there are other ways of catching it apart from stepping on something while barefoot, it's a good idea to keep it up to date for everyone who is even remotely active outdoors (including gardening) and around animals (including pets).

Germs aren't any problem for your feet; our skin is made to keep pathogens out. We're at far greater risk of picking something up through our hands, because with our hands we touch places that many people touch like door knobs, railings, money, etc which may not carry as much *visible* dirt as the floor but carry at least as many germs if not more. Then, we touch our faces and food, increasing the chance the germs can enter our body. As long as you don't lick your feet or put them up on the dinner table, you don't have to worry about that even if you go barefoot in restrooms or stables.

Athlete's foot is not called *athlete's* foot for nothing; you do pick it up from going barefoot in damp places where others have gone barefoot, but afterwards it needs the warm, dark and slightly damp environment of a closed shoe to grow. As happens when you put your foot down in a locker room and then put it in a sneaker, it does especially well when you go exercise and get sweaty feet in your sport shoes. Remain barefoot, and the spores dry up on the well-ventilated, quickly drying, bare skin. Foot fungus is very rare in populations that regularly go barefoot, rather than more common.

Most parasites enter the body by ingestion only; another reason not to lick your feet, but we weren't doing that anyhow. The only non-tropical worm that can enter through the skin is the hookworm, which has been pretty much eradicated from the South since modern plumbing has replaced the outhouses and never was a serious problem in cooler climates.

You are only more susceptible to colds when your *core* temperature drops; keep the rest of your body warm and you can go barefoot even in winter. I'm barefoot year-round; I used to be sickly from early fall until late spring, coughing and sneezing no matter what I tried. These past ten years I've called in sick once (for two days, and it wasn't even in winter), and even a minor cough is rare.

Btw, contrary to popular myth, there are NO health department laws requiring footwear in stores and restaurants.

Answer 5

i don't think its good going barefoot outside b/c you're bound to step on a shattered beer bottle at some point
or maybe not, i don't know i live in new york so it's a common thing

Answer 6

yeah i love going barefoot :]

Answer 7

YES!!!!!! i love being barefoot even if its freezing my mom calls me a hippie!!LOL

Answer 8

Yes. If we were meant to wear shoes we would have been born with them on.

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

do you mean going barefoot as in 'no shoes'.......

or going "Barefoot" as in ....you? ;)

Answer 11

yes