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Shed Pounds to Ease Foot Pain, Suggests Report From Harvard Medical School

Published in Law and Health Weekly, June 30th, 2007

Add foot problems to the long list of conditions that being overweight can cause or exacerbate, says Foot Care Basics: Preventing and treating common foot conditions, a newly updated report from Harvard Medical School. Each time you take a step, you put about one and a half times your weight on your foot. If you run or play tennis, three to four times your weight lands on each foot whenever it hits the ground. Every pound you gain in weight adds to the pounding on your feet.

Excess weight can contribute to the misery of heel pain (particularly plantar fasciitis) and arthritis, among other foot problems. When too much pressure or strain is placed on the plantar fascia --...

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