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Dr. Eowyn posted: "Upper-class women of Imperial China had bound feet
because tiny deformed feet were thought to be pretty -- and also a sexual
fetish for the men. The ideal adult female foot was 3 inches long. Chinese
women of those days had no choice because their feet" Respond to this
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<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> What high heels do
to women’s
feet<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/what-high-heels-do-to-womens-feet/>
by
Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>
[image:
shoe]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/shoe.jpg>Upper-class
women of Imperial China had bound
feet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding>because tiny deformed
feet were thought to be pretty -- and also a sexual
fetish for the men. The ideal adult female foot was 3 inches long.
Chinese women of those days had no choice because their feet had developed
deformed from being tightly bound with cloth beginning when they were
infants. But today, some women in the 21st century willingly torture their
feet by wearing towering 7"-8" platform high-heels.
[image: MoS2 Template
Master]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/high-heels.jpg>Stephen
Adams reports for the Daily
Mail<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396359/High-heels-3D-scan-shows-stilettos-cause-unsightly-clawed-toes-bunions-ARTHRITIS.html>,
Aug. 17, 2013, that the first 3D scan of a female foot in high heels has
highlighted the painful price fashion-conscious women may pay for tottering
around in those monstrous heels.
The picture above was taken with a new £200,000 ($312,820) PedCAT scanner,
the first of its kind in the UK, which does a 360-degree scan of the
patient’s feet in just 60 seconds. Doctors can then view the resultant 3D
image from every angle, spinning it around to view the foot from above,
below and the side.
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Andy Goldberg says wearing stilettos pushes
and twists bones out of line, resulting in knobbly bunions and other
painful conditions. All the body weight gets forced on to the front of the
feet, eventually causing unsightly clawed toes that can become arthritic.
He says the 3D PedCAT technology is a major advance over traditional 2D
X-rays, which could lead to misdiagnoses: "The scanner gives us much more
information. It shows the deformity caused by wearing high heels is much
more complicated than we previously thought. With high heels, the toes are
squashed inside the shoe. The more stiletto-shaped they are, the worse it
is. The toes not only get squashed, but they become clawed too."
Here's what wearing crippling high heels do to the feet of idolized
celebrities. Those bunions and clawed toes don't look so glamorous now.
[image: Angelina
Jolie]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/angelina-jolie1.jpg>[image:
Charlize
Theron1]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/charlize-theron11.jpg>[image:
Christina
Hendricks1]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/christina-hendricks11.jpg>[image:
Iman] <http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/iman1.jpg>[image:
Julianne
Moore1]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/julianne-moore1.jpg>[image:
Kate
Moss1]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/kate-moss1.jpg>[image:
Katie
Holmes]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/katie-holmes.jpg>[image:
Kim
Kardashian1]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/kim-kardashian1.jpg>[image:
Kirsten
Dunst]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/kirsten-dunst.jpg>[image:
Naomi
Campbell]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/naomi-campbell.jpg>[image:
Oprah] <http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/oprah.jpg>[image:
Paris
Hilton]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/paris-hilton.jpg>
Sources: Daily
Mail<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2326093/Kim-Kardashians-swollen-feet-Julianne-Moores-crippled-toes--worst-celebrity-foot-faux-pas.html>;
Rolling Out<http://rollingout.com/entertainment/the-ugliest-celebrity-feet/>
.
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
August 18, 2013 at 4:36 pm | Tags: Andy
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PedCat <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?tag=pedcat>, platform
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