Alkaline Lifestyle: Clothing and Your Health- Flip-Flops

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As summer time approaches and we start unbundling from the winter weather, visions of going to the pool, beach or parks enter our minds. It also generates the thought of liberating our feet from the confines of shoes and goulashes and going around in:
Flip-Flops.
I’ve referenced an interesting article that mentions, Flip-flops were made for the pool or beach, not for permanent wear.
I have taken to walking through a Large Mall recently and I have observed first hand the damage wearing Flip-Flops does to the Posture of anyone wearing them.
If you want to wear an open type sandal, then I recommend that you buy the type of Sandal that has a Strap around the back side of the foot, which lifts the Sole of the Sandal when walking and which has a thick foam type Sole.
Wearing Flip-Flops causes an unnatural gait and produces miss-alignment through out the body and its joints. That in turn, leads to aches, numbness, headaches, and even worse, as Chiropractors will tell you.

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Here are some excerpts from:

The flip-flop flap: They're bad for your feet
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BY LISA GREENE of the
St. Petersburg Times

They may whisper ease and comfort. They may hint that sliding them on brings you two steps closer to lounging by the pool in a small swimsuit with a large margarita.
But under those cute little thongs lurk hidden dangers. Alas, flip-flops are bad for your feet.
"Many people wear flip-flops in the summer as a replacement for their normal shoe gear," said Cary Zinkin, a podiatrist who is a spokesman for the American Podiatric Medical Association. "That's where we find the problems."
No, they won't kill you. But flip-flop overuse can give you tendinitis, arch pain and even sprained ankles, podiatrists say.
This wasn't always so. Just a few years ago, people were more sensible. Flip-flops stayed by the beach or the pool, and podiatrists could confine themselves to bemoaning the perils of the stiletto heel.
"We're probably seeing 10 people a week with flip-flop issues," said podiatrist Robert Frimmel, past president of the Florida Podiatric Medical Association.
People wear them for too long, and flip-flops have no support. They don't absorb shock. They're unstable, making it easier to turn an ankle. Frimmel sees shin splints and arch pain, heel pain and blisters. And then there are the cases of plantar fasciitis, an inflammation of the tissue on the bottom of the foot.
Other problems can include stress fractures and cracks in the heel because the shoes don't absorb shock.
For all the shoes' seductive sponginess, they provide little support. So they can stress other joints, causing tendinitis in the ankle and pain in the knees and back. And, by definition, flip-flops don't protect the feet.