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Saturday, July 24, 2010

High heels lead to shorter calf muscles

Interesting link about how high heels can damage leg tendons. Excerpt:
Researchers looking at leg sonograms of women who frequently wear 2-inch or higher heels found that these women had calf muscle fibers that were an average of 13 percent shorter than their flat-wearing counterparts.


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