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Addressing general concerns about going barefoot and societal implications of it.
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We simply define "primalfoot" as letting your feet be feet first without imprudent footwear. When something is primal, it functions at a very core level without outside influence. It's instinctual. For ...
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It means allowing feet to act as nature intended and free of outside influence. Instead of putting our feet in restrictive, inflexible shoes and expecting them to do all of the ...
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Well, that's obviously a matter of personal preference, but we ask you this: "Do your shoes like you back, or are they mean and overbearing to your feet?" Fashion is all ...
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This is a very common misconception. Whenever feet become unattractive, it's usually because people have put them in shoes too much and taken care of them too little. Going barefoot -- ...
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Let us begin our answer with a couple of questions: Are you okay seeing people walk around with sandals, flip flops or open-toed shoes? If so, how is that different from ...
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No more than people with shoes do. In fact, even after wiping their feet off on a mat before entering, a barefooter is far less likely to deposit nasty things on ...
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This is a common stereotype against bare feet. The fact is that nearly everybody can go barefoot for better health and greater comfort regardless of lifestyle choices, political leanings or socio-economic ...
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As times change, so do people's perceptions of what's proper and acceptable. It use to be that "proper" women would never be seen wearing pants and children "shouldn't speak unless they ...
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We believe that many people have "ugly feet" because of their footwear. The more you wear shoes, the more opportunities there are for callouses, corns, bunions, toe fungus, athlete's foot, ingrown ...
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In many ways, YES! Think about how you felt as a kid: You were bolder. You had more stamina. Life's problems weren't such big deals. More to the point of this ...
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We can't make anyone go barefoot if they don't want to, and we recognize that there are specific groups of people who should NOT go barefoot. All that said, we turn ...
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This is about more than just exposing the tops of our feet to the air. Going barefoot stimulates nerve endings in the soles of the feet and helps with foot strength ...
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from Advisory Board member and The Barefoot Book author Daniel Howell: "Jesus probably went barefoot more often than not; he may have gone nearly 100% barefoot. There’s ...





