Posted by Kirsten on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Whether you're traveling to a tropical area for business, pleasure, or to do some good, one of the things you're bound to be warned about before you leave is malaria. There's a good reason for that--malaria is one of the plagues of the developing world. The disease is transmitted by a type of mosquito that thrives in tropical climates. The ...
Posted by Kirsten on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Has this ever happened to you? You: I'm just going to kick off my shoes and relax. Family Member 1: I just remembered, I have to check on something in the oven...at Grandma's house. In Uruguay. Friend: Oops, did I mention that I'm going on a trip to the South Pole? Now? Co-worker: Oh wow, I have to go wash my pens. See you ...
Posted by Kirsten on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Each foot has about 250,000 sweat glands. That means your feet are likely to sweat at any given opportunity. Now they're not doing this to embarrass you or make you uncomfortable, no, your feet sweat because that's how your body cools itself down. That's what your body does. It's a fact of life. Nevertheless, it's an unpleasant fact, and sweaty feet ...
Posted by Kirsten on Friday, February 17th, 2012
If you were rating bones by the melodiousness of their names, the sesamoid bone would rate very highly. Quick, come up with a challenger. Okay, I guess phalanges (toe and finger bones) is pretty good, but we're not here to talk about hands, we're here to talk about feet!! And the sesamoid bones are part of your feet--a small part, ...
Posted by Kirsten on Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Athlete's foot. Yuck. It's a fungus that grows on your feet and makes them hot, itchy, and miserable. The fungus thrives in warm, moist places--that's how it gets its name, from locker rooms where the atmosphere is warm, sweaty, and wet, with damp shoes, damp feet, and damp towels everywhere you turn. It's an eager little fungus, too. Step in ...
Posted by Kirsten on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
The descriptions always start the same way: "Suddenly I heard a loud popping noise..." That's usually followed by extreme pain and an inability to use the lower half of the leg in any useful way. Yup, it's a ruptured Achilles tendon, an injury that's annoying and painful for anyone, but completely debilitating if you run or play any kind of sport. ...
Posted by Kirsten on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
It's Valentine's Day, and while chocolate, flowers, and a candlelight dinner are nice, here's something you guys can do for the loves in your life that's good for you, too: get a pedicure. Yes, that's right, I said a pedicure, as in walk into a nail salon, possibly named something like "Blossom's Nails," where there is a rack of nail polish ...
Posted by Kirsten on Monday, February 13th, 2012
Feet. You wear them everyday. But here are some crazy things you may not know about them: 25% of the bones found in the human body are in the feet. Yup, that's right--there are 206 bones in your body, and 26 are in each foot (the hand takes first place for most bones in a body part with 26 bones. Stupid, ...
Posted by Kirsten on Friday, February 10th, 2012
If you're someone who runs regularly, then you're gaining a lot of health benefits--improved heart function, lower blood pressure, stronger muscles. You're also probably injured. My acupuncturist once estimated to me that about 70% of the people out running every day in the park are dealing with some kind of injury, however large or small (I know, if they're injured, why ...
Posted by Kirsten on Thursday, February 9th, 2012
It's winter here in the northeastern US, which perhaps inclines us (or at least me) to begin to daydream about things like sun, sand, and water. That is, boats out on the water and being in those boats. An important part of foot health is, of course, the right pair of shoes for any given situation. Keeping your feet dry while ...
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