Is going barefoot good for you?

Answer 1

Of course it is. We are born that way.

Answer 2

It depends where you are walking, some grasses carry a fungus, others have microscopic worms that embed under the skin.
Asphalt, or concrete is not clean, neither are sidewalks, guess the best would be the beach.
It also depends on how you carry your weight, if you have hip, knee or foot problems, over the long term you run the risk of not benefiting from corrective procedures.
But it sure is fun.

Answer 3

It isn't good to go barefoot in today's society. The overuse of concrete to create our cage-like cities will damage your feet if you run barefoot.

Nature, however, is a different story. Our feet are perfect when running in grass because our feet were designed for this natural cushioning.

In nature, you can roam free. In the city, you must wear foot cramping shoes.

Answer 4

No, it is not good for your feet at all. Your feet may hurt when you walk barefoot, but then they become adjusted and become stronger. But when your walking barefoot you do not have proper support (same with flipflops, highheels..etc). My mother would go on daily jogs with her friends, and she wasnt wearing proper shoes and now she has a common foot problem and has to wear inserts on all of her shoes. You might ask what the heck does this have to do with barefoot, but you could develop those problems if you do that often.

Also, who knows what you could step on? what if there is a dirty nail laying on the ground-OUCH. you could step on a rock and hurt your foot, step on a splinter...or anything else. So many bad things.

Answer 5

It's good for your arches! It would help build up your metatarsus. But, watch out for the cactus in TX, NM, AZ, UT, NV, CO and southern CA! Ouch!

Answer 6

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.
(btw, bad shoes are *far* worse than no shoes! It's not at all true that because bad shoes cause problems that proves that 'feet need support')

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 7

no barefoot outside of the home is not good. inside the home it is ok depending on the type of floors you have. if you have carpet it is ok.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Yes it is.